 Poster: A snowHead
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| 64mph! That's mental! We have a speed-trap at the bottom of the Haneggschuss in Wengen (they leave it there after the downhill race) and the best anyone can do after a long steep schuss is about 100kph (62mph). And that's on a roped-off track! |
My best there is 87kph on the board, if you go from higher up and jump the fence into it you can get faster but it's rarely smooth enough for me when I'm in the mood to gun it straight down. Speed doesn't interest me that much.
I tend to board fast this year (must be the frustration of being stuck indoors all day) but it can only be around 50 to 60 kph, with music and soft drugs 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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great read, I am planning on buying a GPS soon, and look forward to finding out how fast i actually ski
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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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There's a piste here which comes down near a hairpin bend we drive round, then goes exactly alongside the road for a bit, fairly flat. I saw a woman turning down the piste this morning - competent, and quite quick, but absolutely not any kind of daft speed - it's only a blue piste. She then slowed down a lot, as she was just straight running down the much flatter bottom of the piste, to bring people almost to a halt before they have to go through the chicane gap in the net and take their skis off. We clocked her at 25mph on our car speedo - I was extremely surprised the speed was so high. Even if our speedo is 10% out, she was doing over 20mph, and must have been doing over 30 turning down the blue. Over 40 or 50 going fast seems highly likely.
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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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Blue pistes are probably the ones where any competent skier doing long radius turns will be going over 40mph regularly.
Spikyhedgehog, Where did you tuck from? I knew it would be possible to top 70 on that run. Skin tight Jacket? 
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markP, just from the second lip, after carving down from the top lip.
Was just wearing my normally baggy Burton jacket, I sat right down on my skis though. Fun stuff. 
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