 Poster: A snowHead
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Just wondering how far everybody skis in one weeks holiday, the Dolomiti superski site has an app where you can put your skipass number in and check distance etc.
my results are 127 lifts, 29,111m of vertical and 163km. I think this is about average for a week but interested to see other results !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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interested to see other results !
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sorry, never occurred to me to keep tabs, but it would be interesting to see. I don't think it would tax a decent skier to ski every linked run in our area in a week, and that would be 185 km. In doing so, you would inevitably ski quite a lot of them more than once, so you'd do well over 250kms, I'd say. I expect people who bomb around the 3V for a week could do a fair bit more than that.
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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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I did that when we got back from christmas and I've forgoten what it was, well over 180km though and I thought that wasn't a lot.
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High speed lifts mean you can put down some serious miles, no wonder skis needs waxing every few days at big resorts.
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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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244.4 km according to SkiTracks from 6 days in 3V. One of those days was very poor visibility and one afternoon I forgot to turn it back on after lunch. Oh and about 44K metres vertically. Is that good?
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Wed 1-02-12 16:09; edited 1 time in total
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I've done a 100km ski day and I'm by no means fantastic
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I have monitored this quite carefully via GPS systems for many years (each to their own) and think that 2planks is about right. As a casual piste cruiser I average about 30km of actual skiing and 5,500m of vertical drop depending on the resort. On some days I've managed 40km of skiing but not very many.
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Rishie, My phone turns GPS off when the battery reaches 20% so I only know how I've done in the moning.
iAmacrapbattery!
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used the skiline app for Niederau a couple of weeks ago. I did just over 200km whilst my eldest did over 260km, bearing in mind that Thursday morning was a washout due to high winds. Did 20km for 2 hours on the Saturday morning.
Heading to St Anton with boys in 4 weeks and think the mileage will be closer to the 260-300km
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Sounds about right.
20 miles a day of actual skiing on a full day (based on away days around the Milky Way with a group of advanced intermediates).
That's 200km over the week.
A fast skier on their own and a packed lunch on a chairlift could theoretically cover twice the distance.
A lot of skiers don't necessarily do 6 full days.
So where were we? oh yes, around 200km.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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It's funny to see the decline as the week goes on (for some). My last outing started of promising with about 30km each for the first 2 days which soon went down to about 15km on the penultimate day followed by a big fat 0KM on the final day. Jeagermeister killed us! woops
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On that week did morning lessons for three of the days, so mileage is down 
Lessons were a bit of a waste TBH as all the instructor did was to tell me to move up and down more on intiating the turn and he skied far too slowly !!
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You know it makes sense.
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I took a GPS out for a couple of days last week. This is my track for Monday which I thought was a reasonably easy, slowish day (9000m vertical, 40 miles travelled, 31mph max).
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/145309631
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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According to ski tracks we ski around 20 to 25 miles a day at an avearge speed of around 18mph
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Poster: A snowHead
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Seriously, who cares? The question I ask other skiers in the evening is "good day?". If the answer is "yes", that's all you need to know. If someone answers "no, rubbish, I only managed 40k's because my wife/friend/instructor was going too slow" I'd wonder about that persons priorities and motivation.
Relax people, you're supposed to be on a holiday.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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True that, it just gives the geeks something to talk about in the bar.
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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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Dr John, +1
The turn behind you and the one in front is all you need to know.
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I don't care that much tbh but it's interesting to know. Last Wednesday I spent half a day at La Grave in very bad visibility. A small amount of skiing felt just as knackering and challenging.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Dr John seriously, you've never got home and thought "wow, I'm knackered, I must have skied miles today, I wonder how far that was?" or thought "wow, that run was really fast. I wonder how fast I was going?" or thought "blimey, I feel really drunk and I've only had two pints. I wonder how strong that beer was?"
Well the answers to the first 2 questions are available via GPS. The answer to the third is that another pint will stop you asking unnecessary questions.
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Just looked at my training log (skiing gets mixed in with cycling/running/swimming). Looks like we (OH, Jnr and myself) cover between 25-30 miles inc lifts - I'd guess that lifts would take up about a third of travel, so 30-35km actually skied seems about right.
I wouldn't say we dawdle, but we don't hammer down anything either.
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Its such a shame some posters (from former colonies) can't understand sarcasm..................runs away whilst fitting tin hat. 
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I read an article that the better skier if only on piste skiing v quickly spends nearly 2/3 time on lifts.
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| Tiger2 wrote: |
| Dr John seriously, you've never got home and thought "wow, I'm knackered, I must have skied miles today, I wonder how far that was?" or thought "wow, that run was really fast. I wonder how fast I was going?" or thought "blimey, I feel really drunk and I've only had two pints. I wonder how strong that beer was?". |
Don't know about the doc. But my thought aren't exactly the same but instead:
"wow, I'm knackered, I must have tackled some really steep/bumpy/bad snow runs"!
Or: "wow, that run was really fast. Let me repeat that a few more times!"
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Wed 1-02-12 17:16; edited 1 time in total
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| 2planks wrote: |
| my results are 127 lifts, 29,111m of vertical and 163km. I think this is about average for a week but interested to see other results ! |
Course, that 163km is how far you'd have gone if you were straightlining it down the piste itself. It'll be on the order of pi/2 times longer if you're doing nice neat wiggles all the way down 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Big Paua, nicely put. Also "where for lunch?"
Tiger2, I've finished the day thinking "what a cracking day, I must have skied miles today. Who's round is it? what was the name of that cracking red we lapped? what was that lovely desert you had a lunch? Who's round is it? I think I'll switch to red now....."
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| Dr John wrote: |
| what was that lovely desert you had a lunch? |
Atacama, Sahara
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You know it makes sense.
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what was that lovely desert you had a lunch?
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Sahara? or Gobi?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Colin B, andy, gimmie a break, that was shortly before I switched to red...
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Poster: A snowHead
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2planks,
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posters (from former colonies)
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I prefer to think of them as temporarily self-governing.
...borrow your tin hat?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Only two questions worth asking, how steep, and how deep!
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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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Actually I was wondering how long most of us consider as a week. Some poster say 6 days, my calendar says 7 and if I go skiing for a week I ski 8 days.
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johnE, ahh but it's a leap year this year so one weeks got an extra day in it...
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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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2planks, 125 lifts, 39,345ft, 214km - 6 days (staying at Canazei) Heaviest day was day 5, 9473 ft 49km.
I'm not sure, however, if this is of any interest to anybody except me 
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I skied two more lifts.......it's of no interest to anybody else but was bored at home today 
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We used the ski tracks app for the first time last week. Generally used it from 9 am till around 1 to 1.30 pm before picking up kids. We were doing around 20km per session, with a vertical of around 3000 m. Definitely not for the purpose of bragging (!) just curious to see what sort of distances we covered
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| Dr John wrote: |
Seriously, who cares? The question I ask other skiers in the evening is "good day?". If the answer is "yes", that's all you need to know. If someone answers "no, rubbish, I only managed 40k's because my wife/friend/instructor was going too slow" I'd wonder about that persons priorities and motivation.
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Why sneer? If you're not interested, there are plenty of other threads in the forum.
Most years I keep a record of my skiing. I find it interesting and useful. Ahead of this year's trip, I know exactly which lifts will offer me the best ratio of high quality skiing per minute uplift. Perhaps surprisingly, I need to stay away from most of the high-speed detachable quads and use a few elderly fixed-grip slow triples that rise rapidly and waste little time on needless traverses or tedious motorway-style groomers. I don't know about you, but I find that I have the most fun when I'm skiing; a scientific approach to maximising my skiing time thus seems sensible.
The vertical that you cover will vary hugely according to the lifts that you choose and the type of terrain that you like to ski. I'd say that 12,000m vertical in a full day is typical for my family with three highly energetic teenagers, but that can fall dramatically if we're doing a lot of bumps, trees or powder.
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I flatly refuse to answer this question... on the grounds it may incriminate me. 
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