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Days #14-16: Off-Piste at Borovets

Vito ValentinettiFebruary 1, 2017

After a few days of rest and recuperation in the utterly charming city of Plovdiv, I'm off again, this time to Borovets, one of the three major resorts of Bulgaria. Only a couple hours from Plovdiv (and just an hour south of Sofia), the bus ride flew...

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Days #8-9: Feeling at Home in Bansko, Bulgaria

Vito ValentinettiJanuary 25, 2017

I bought a new snowboard. I couldn't handle the rental gear. It turns out that waiting twenty minutes to pay $15 bucks to use a terribly maintained snowboard is a terrible waste of time and money. I've tried it three times since arriving in Europe...

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Day #5: Hitching and Hiking and Boarding in Bulgaria (Video)

Vito ValentinettiJanuary 22, 2017

Somebody picked up a GoPro for this 100 Days of Winter. Sure, you can read about my adventures at Bezbog right here -- or you can watch me stumble through an amateur travelogue. Or do both! Your choice!...

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Day #5: Hitching and Hiking and Riding Goce Delchev

Vito ValentinettiJanuary 22, 2017

It's eight in the morning and I'm alone on a deserted foggy road. Well, alone except for the police officers. They're sitting in a van and blocking a perfectly good hitch spot. I'm not entirely sure if it's legal to hitch here, but after a small pant...

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Day #3: Return to Vitosha and Off to Bansko

Vito ValentinettiJanuary 17, 2017

5.00 am: I'm woken up by the gentlest of alarms -- my fall-down drunk hostel roommates returning from an all night pub crawl. I'm so excited about going riding that I can't fall back asleep. After a few cups of coffee and a bit of work, I'm off to se...

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Ski Area #50! Vail, CO

Vito ValentinettiApril 18, 2010

Day 100 Location: Vail, CO Resorts: 50 out of 50 Well, here we are. The 100th day and the 50th resort. 100DOW kicked off with a big party and ended with an even bigger blow-out. Jeff from The Slanket put me up in his fancy Vail ski house for a coupl...

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Ski Area #49: Berthoud Pass, CO

Vito ValentinettiApril 17, 2010

Day 99 Location: Winter Park, CO Resorts: 49 out 50 At the beginning of this project, I said that I would ride 50 ski areas. I never said that they would all be open. With only two days left in 100DOW and running low on ski areas, I made my way to Be...

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Ski Area #48: Echo Mountain, CO

Vito ValentinettiApril 16, 2010

Day 97 Location: Idaho Springs, CO Resorts: 48 out of 50 With only a solitary double chair and surrounded by some of the largest ski areas in the country, Echo doesn't try to compete with the big dogs. They're the cheapest and closest ski area to Den...

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Ski Area #47: Winter Park, CO

Vito ValentinettiApril 13, 2010

Day 95 Location: Winter Park, CO Ski Areas: 47 out of 50 I had been to Winter Park twice before and both times I must have missed the entrance to the Mary Jane base area. This is the Winter Park I've been looking for. No crazy base village with pay p...

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Ski Area #46: A-Basin, CO

Vito ValentinettiApril 12, 2010

Day 93 Location: Dillon, CO Ski Areas: 46 out of 50 Back when I worked at Keystone and got a pass to all five Vail Resorts, I frequently found myself up at A-Basin. It was much smaller than Keystone, but there were also way fewer tourists, a populati...

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