Close by, there is a quaint little nursery slope, and beyond that the chair lift up the mountain, home to a modest 24 pistes, two greens, several blues, and some harder reds and blacks, including the notorious Crystal Dark – a vertiginous rock-scarred drop from the peak.
You pass a sign warning you of the rough sea (ignore it) and are lured by the light playing on the ultramarine water, until you clamber down steps carved into the vertiginous rocks to dive into the buoyant sea.
THE house was quintessential Boulder: a century-old Queen Anne-style cracker box with a little porch overlooking the historic downtown, and behind it, the vertiginous red rock cliffs of the Flatirons -- veritable magnets that have long attracted newcomers to this quirky mountain town on the Rockies' eastern edge.
Out from under this rock — gigantic vertiginous crag of gossip might be more precise — Humphries emerged Thursday night.
The Inca city of Machu Picchu, spectacularly poised on a rock among vertiginous green peaks, was not rediscovered until 1911.
The double-black-diamond Extreme Limits, 548 acres of vertiginous drop-offs, burly rock outcroppings and wasp-waisted chutes, encompasses some of the mountain's best-known terrain; the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships are held here every February.
A vertiginous work of ravines, rocks, follies and bridges, 25 hectares of toy savage landscape formed out of old quarries by the engineer Adolphe Alphand under the direction of Baron Haussmann, the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is the alter ego of the straight-lined order of the Baron's famous boulevards.
Through cottonwoods and silvery stands of Russian olive trees, the vertiginous views of sky and rock were mesmerizing.
Described in the score as "A Theater Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers," this work covers a vertiginous stylistic gamut with acid rock and 12-tone serialism, Renaissance polyphony and Mahler, jazz, Broadway and down-home Americana.
