http://vertexpress.com Skiing, snowboarding and mountain lifestyle Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:39:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/sliding-scale-for-lift-ticket-pricing http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/sliding-scale-for-lift-ticket-pricing#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:16:02 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=3227 Let’s admit it: lift ticket prices hurt our wallets. We pay them because skiing/snowboarding is addicting. And to get our fix, we will pay any price just to enjoy outdoors and great conditions. Unfortunately, Mother Nature doesn’t dump fresh snow every single day during a ski season. It is not unusual to see rain, sleet or 40+ temperatures [...]]]> http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/sliding-scale-for-lift-ticket-pricing/feed 0 http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/whistler-blackcomb-xxs http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/whistler-blackcomb-xxs#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:12:59 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=2943 Whistler Blackcomb XXS displays some interesting video techniques, tilt-shift is just one of them,  that make it a stand out in a crowded space of promotional ski movies. Since this video was re-posted, re-tweeted and re-blogged all over the web, I decided to add some value by checking social media stats and trends for this [...]]]> http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/whistler-blackcomb-xxs/feed 0 http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/snowboardnator http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/snowboardnator#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:49:38 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=2909 I can’t say much about these ski pants – they look all right from an aesthetic perspective. Ralph Lauren says that the pants are waterproof, breathable and featuring  Recco avalanche rescue system as well as many other bells and whistles. It is all nice and dandy but I am not sure about the “snowboardnator” image projected by designers. [...]]]> http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/snowboardnator/feed 0 http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/poaching-mad-river-glen http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/poaching-mad-river-glen#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:04:58 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=2720 Mad River Glen ski resort is famous for banning snowboarders from riding there; and  naturally, the ban attracts snowboarders who  has to go an extra step uphill to ski, err ride, MRG (Just Google “poaching Mad River Glen” for some hilarious stuff…) So while some folks earned their ski turns, Seth poached Mad River Glen [...]]]> http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/poaching-mad-river-glen/feed 2 http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/this-is-just-wrong-ski-fashion http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/this-is-just-wrong-ski-fashion#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:42:37 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=2620 I agree: Just about everything is wrong with this picture. Post credit: topnotchswagger]]> http://vertexpress.com/lodge-notes/this-is-just-wrong-ski-fashion/feed 0 http://vertexpress.com/images/best-winter-shots-whiteface-mountain-powder http://vertexpress.com/images/best-winter-shots-whiteface-mountain-powder#comments Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:23:49 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=2556 Photo credit: Whiteface Mountain]]> http://vertexpress.com/images/best-winter-shots-whiteface-mountain-powder/feed 0 http://vertexpress.com/images/best-winter-shots-going-into-heaven-at-a-basin http://vertexpress.com/images/best-winter-shots-going-into-heaven-at-a-basin#comments Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:07:05 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=2546 Photo credit: Curtis Garth]]> http://vertexpress.com/images/best-winter-shots-going-into-heaven-at-a-basin/feed 0 http://vertexpress.com/images/before-skiing http://vertexpress.com/images/before-skiing#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:34:23 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=2482 Somehow, I tend to find interesting, at least to me, angles and perspectives early in the morning. Of course, it helps to have an eleven month old son who prefers to wake up  around 6AM. So while he was watching his baby Einstein movies, I tried to set up my new camera and brew a cup of fresh coffee. You [...]]]> http://vertexpress.com/images/before-skiing/feed 0 http://vertexpress.com/images/after-a-day-on-ski-slopes http://vertexpress.com/images/after-a-day-on-ski-slopes#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:51:06 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=2474 Last weekend, I decided to hang  around Mount Snow instead of immediately driving to the 7Eleven store in West Dover. I took a drive around the main base, stopped by Carinthia, Suntec village and the cross-country center. Surprisingly, there were a lot of people hanging around, sharing ski stories or buying things in a local ski shop. Eventually, I [...]]]> http://vertexpress.com/images/after-a-day-on-ski-slopes/feed 0 http://vertexpress.com/videos/thats-it-thats-all-snowboard-video http://vertexpress.com/videos/thats-it-thats-all-snowboard-video#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:09:09 +0000 Sergey Ulitenok http://vertexpress.com/?p=83 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!]]> http://vertexpress.com/videos/thats-it-thats-all-snowboard-video/feed 1