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While America's skiers are in deep hibernation over summer, one fanatic continues to slog it away on the little summer ski area of Timberline (Mount Hood) in Oregon.
Rainer Hertrich, a 44-year-old ski worker from Copper Mountain, clocked up over 18,000 vertical metres last Tuesday on one Poma lift! He claims to have skied more than 10 million vertical feet (a bit less than 1 million vertical metres) over the past 300 consecutive days.
This report from Summit Daily News.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Pedant Alert !!!!! 10 million feet is much more than 1 Million metres
3,039,514m - give or take some decimal points.
( DG may be thinking of cubic measures for 10 to 1 )
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thanks, Ian. I must try and avoid doing maths at midnight, especially if they have financial consequences.
It would be interesting to talk to Rianer Hertrich on snowHeads, but he seems to be a bit busy. Maybe it's healthy for him that there are hours of darkness.
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I thought you were going to say it was PG 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| kuwait_ian wrote: |
Pedant Alert !!!!! 10 million feet is much more than 1 Million metres
3,039,514m - give or take some decimal points.
( DG may be thinking of cubic measures for 10 to 1 ) |
Err... that would be _square_ measures:
1 m = 3.3 ft
1 sq. m = 10.8 sq. ft
1 cu. m = 35.3 cu. ft. (all approx)
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
While America's skiers are in deep hibernation over summer, one fanatic continues to slog it away on the little summer ski area of Timberline (Mount Hood) in Oregon.
Rainer Hertrich, a 44-year-old ski worker from Copper Mountain, clocked up over 18,000 vertical metres last Tuesday on one Poma lift! He claims to have skied more than 10 million vertical feet (a bit less than 1 million vertical metres) over the past 300 consecutive days.
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This is the Palmer snowfield. (Warning : Rather large photo, so probably not a good idea to click if you are on 56K)
I took a piccy of it when I was there at the end of April. Couldn't go up on the glacier at that point though as the Palmer Express was shut. The bottom station of the Palmer Express is about level with where I was standing and a bit to the right. All the runs off the Palmer Express are marked as single black diamonds on the trail map, but they looked more like beginners runs from where I was standing.
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