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How far do you ski in a week?
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This was quite a long day
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janny wrote:
the one thing i'd say about Apps like Skitracks, though, is to wonder if they are reliable? Don't know but, e.g., i've tried Skitracks and it was still counting vertical whilst I was sitting still eating lunch....I've also cycled up a lot of mountains and a mate who was using a GPS app to track vertical ascent said it recorded approx 2 x the vertical we knew (from reliable published info) we had in fact ascended.....
GPS vertical measurement is rubbish compared to horizontal because the satellite geometry is compromised by them all being on the one side of what you are trying to measure. Add some mountains which obscure half the sky and its even worse then add the fact that the GPS units in mobile phones are cheap gewgaws for technological magpies and the result is a load of old toot. Try using an in car GPS on a tight hairpinned mountain ascent and it soon loses the plot and asks you to "turn around when possible".
I am quite surprised at how little horizontal distance some claim to cover. I have never bothered to measure how far I've covered with the assistance of gravity but have managed 35km in a day on nordic classic skis with some professional grade hot chocolate and lunch stops thrown in but I think this was because my willy had shrunk in the cold.
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stew72 wrote:
After a superb week in the Dolomites last week.....i'd skied 210KM, which I was quite disappointed with.
That makes the lift pass expensive at about 1 euro per km of skiing. I had a similar figure for each of my weeks but we did have some lazy days. Next year will do a few more laps down to Ortisei to bump up the mileage.
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Some local guys just did 250km in just over a day.... without using ski lifts.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Some local guys just did 250km in just over a day.... without using ski lifts
Now that's impressive......
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