DOUBLE OR NOTHING

Grab your bike and your fins and get to Hawaii. When you book a round-trip flight to Kauai with Hawaiian Airlines ($500 from Los Angeles; 800-367-5320; www.hawaiianair.com), you can hop to the Big Island for free (it's normally a $100 fare). First get your fill of diving through coral tunnels at Kauai's Cannons and Tunnels Reef, then, as a bonus, cycle the 300-mile perimeter of the Big Island, home of Volcanoes National Park, or surf Kona's Banyans break (above).

BACHELOR PARTIES

Thought May was too late for skiing in the lower 48? Think again. Spring skiing—along with ski-and-hotel package prices—are still sweet at 9,065-foot Mount Bachelor near Bend, Oregon. The Summit Express and Pine Marten Express chairlifts are typically still operating in May, accessing about half of Bachelor's trails. This season, Emerald Travel (888-841-3391; www.emeraldtravel.com), a Bend-based agency, is offering some late-season deals. Its Millennium Medallion package includes four nights' double-occupancy lodging, two four-day ski passes to Bachelor, and free breakfast for $515 (hotel and skiing alone would otherwise cost $880). The Back to Nature package, one that doesn't involve lift lines at all, includes three nights' lodging, two days of cross-country skiing at Mount Bachelor, a half-day guided snowshoe tour in Deschutes National Forest, and daily breakfast for just $280. Call 541-382-7888 for an updated ski report.

Photo: Kirk Lee Aeder