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Another location to flesh out... Does this place have any organized settlements, or is there just an isolated five-star hotel stuck on the side of the mountain with no infrastructure around it? (Even I think the latter is unlikely.) What is there to do here? Does anybody actually live here, and if they do, how do they decide things or earn a living? (They can't all work at the hotel... can they?)

The writeup as it currently exists, with spelling mistakes corrected:

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[[Image:Olympus3.jpg|thumb|Olypmus Mons courtesy of NASA]

Located on [[Mars] Olympus Mons is the largest known volcano in the Sol System. Rising roughly 27 kilometers (17 miles) above the Martian surface it is three times taller than Mount Everest on [[Earth] and covers an area approximately the size of Texas.

The minds behind the [[Mars Terraforming Project] intend for Olympus Mons to become even more of a tourist attraction than it currently is, by introducing skiing and other winter activities once there's weather to work with. Note, you will still need assistance breathing after that, especially if you go all the way up.

==Known Places at Olympus Mons==

* '''Hotel Bradbury''': An exceptionally tasteful, recently opened hotel designed primarily to cater to the Earth tourist trade. Decor includes replicas and originals of some rare sci-fi art and artifacts from the Forrest J. Ackerman collection.The remainder of the hotel's 2010 rooms are typical for a high class hotel. Unlike many Western hotels, the Bradbury does have a 13th floor, including the Rod Serling, Stephen King, and HP Lovecraft suites.
* '''Cafe Lankhmar''': Located within the Hotel Bradbury, A full-service hotel restaurant with a top-tier chef, providing typical "room service" as well as the pseudo-medieval themed dishes for the restaurant itself. Of particular note, the sommelier stocks several excellent Martian Red wines as well as the expected "Solar System's Finest beverages."

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Hrm... Maybe the summet should have a dome? Though, given that the moutnain itself comvers an area about the size of texas, that'd be a dome big enough to probably cover Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas/Ft. Worth if they were all adjacent to each other.