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A boarder tried to kill me.....kind of!!
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Had a great time with a GPS on an arm strap in Serre Chevalier this year! Used it for the first time on day 4 coming back to the chalet to proudly say I had skied at 44 mph. Unfortunately one of the boarders in the chalet had been using one too and proudly proclaimed his top speed for the day of 54.2mph!!
Well I wasnt about to be beaten so spent the next two days periodically trying to beat it, getting up to 49mph (maybe not that fast to expert skiers but pretty scary for me!). Finally last day I decided to really go for it and went flying down a run hell for leather, fastest I have ever done for sure, triumphantly sure I had beaten him I glance at my arm......damn thing had turned itself off!!!!!!
So last night head back to the chalet and over dinner and a fair bit of wine I congratulate him on his victory. Strangely he looks sheepish and his fellow boarders start sniggering. Apparently after anouncing his incredible speed it had dawned on the lot of them that they had not finished boarding at our village that day....they had finished in the next one along.....and enjoyed a lovely speedy drive back to the chalet......and you have probably guessed it, the damn GPS was still on!
So there you have it, a boarder tried to kill me!!
PS before anyone starts getting funny I only was having a go was one a pistes with noone else around where I could see all the way to the run off, so no danger to any other piste users!
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Obviously
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SkiG
, ha ha - genius! good effort. I can never get as fast on skis as I can on a board
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?
what kills you is taking your eyes of the piste to check the speed on your arm..
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SkiG
, nice one. You probably did beat the boarders. After all, my little girl clocked mid-50s mph last year, and she was only 15 at the time.
Very unreliable these GPS thingies.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
You can get some pretty good speeds if it 'loses' you briefly in the trees - I've had speeds of 30mph+ recorded on days when I have only walked, admittedly with a fairly old GPS, so I don't know if newer ones are better at that sort of thing.
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Very unreliable these GPS thingies. 
