Sergey was born in Belarus and came to the U.S. ten years ago. He graduated from New York University and attended Columbia University. After graduation, he worked as an investment banking analyst at M.C. Alcamo & Co., a NYC based media investment bank. Sergey is an editor at vertexpress.com
Tweet this!Mount Snow resort got its name for a reason: The snowmaking crews there make a lot of snow. The Mount Snow has more than 250 snowmaking fans, the most fan guns in the entire North America. When the ski season starts in November, they start coating the mountain’s four faces, 87 trails, and 12 [...]
Tweet this!There is a couture jewelry boutique, The North Face, and a Burton flagship store, among other brand names, in this small ski village. You can buy Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal in a local coffee shop or relax at the end of a day in the village bar voted among the “Top 5 [...]
Tweet this!Raise your hand if you have ever been to or heard of Okemo, Killington, Stratton or Sugarbush mountain resorts in VT. Chances are that most of you will raise a hand. These places have extensive snowmaking, powerful grooming fleets, fast chair lifts, luxury condos, spas and everything in between that would make that ski [...]
Tweet this!It is good to be an innovator, or at least someone who introduces or implements an idea new to a particular place. In terms of skiing business we witnessed Okemo Mountain resort installing loading and, most importantly, unloading carpet to make those lift rides a bit faster and safer for skiers and riders. It [...]
Tweet this!Following up on the previous article, I found demo ads made by eVent and Gore Tex. So, here they are.
Tweet this!Forget about wool socks and cold feet and meet Therm-ic, an Austrian company claiming that it has solved an extremely uncomfortable issue for many of us: cold feet. And they did it with technologies and not your merino wool socks: using a remote control and three heat levels you can heat up your ski [...]
Tweet this!Sometimes it is hard to describe in words why do I like skiing and outdoor lifestyle in general. So the other day I was browsing through Vermont collections on Flickr and stumbled upon a photostream depicting various images from Stowe, Vermont. And all I could say was..”simply amazing”. And to me, the whole collection [...]
Tweet this!A really good video teaser featuring Travis Rice was posted on the net and I thought that you would find it motivating! Travis Rice sums up his point in a few words: “What is snowboarding to me? I would say it is when I feel passion…It is my life”. Enjoy the video!
Tweet this! And a reason for a such bold statement is simple. First of all, almost all types of rankings are inherently controversial and should be taken with a grain of salt; and the same principle can be applied to the ski resort rankings. Just the other day I viewed rankings published by Skiing Magazine [...]
