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Ever tried GPS-tracking your day's skiing?

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GPS tracking, with an automatic print-out map of your day's skiing, is appearing in a growing number of US resorts. It involves wearing an

armband-mounted GPS receiver, made by SlopeTracker. At the end of the day, you hand over the device which provides data that can generate a "poster-quality frame-ready printout" of your day's progress.

Telluride, Park City, Copper Mountain, Winter Park and Keystone are the resorts currently offering the service. The print-out map includes the following data: number of runs, vertical feet, speed, calories burned, distance traveled, time skied, and terrain difficulty.

Here's the SlopeTracker website for more info.

Anyone tried this?
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The mountain hosts at Copper Mtn in Colorado wear this for the head office's benefit. Not a bad idea.
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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?
Ever tried GPS tracking your wife's day shopping?

When the Mrs gets home from the shops she simply hands over the device which provides a poster quality frame ready printout of where she's been spending your hard earned cash.

Download the shoe shop and garden centre expansion pack today!

Could be onto something here
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David Goldsmith,

Only on the Col de Lyksamm. A bit of overkill otherwise for the piste.
I can see the benefit for rescue type services tho'

ian bloomfield, LOL
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Also available the PUB WITH BEER download, just right for those upcoming beer shortages, and avoiding the ensuing price rises.
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Do it yourself for about 500 Squid. GPS (3ft res.) altimeter, barometer, chronograph, pc interface and software . . . I can hear Kramer fumbling for his wallet already wink

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Do it yourself for about 500 Squid. GPS (3ft res.) altimeter, barometer, chronograph, pc interface and software . . . I can hear Kramer fumbling for his wallet already



Nah, I bet he's got one already Toofy Grin
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
As the GPS Tracking from SlopeTracker costs $25 a day it wouldn't take long before you had spent more than the cost of a fancy Suunto watch!
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I'd rather people tracked me via my footprints, as per tradition.
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The Abominable snowHead, There will be no footprints after i have done pisteing work. Smile
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I tried this with my handheld GPS 'mounted in the top of my backpack. I got several days worth of tracks - top speed 44MPH! (I know DH athletes go much faster but that was fast enough for me)
THe problem is analysing the data.
(3 ft accuracy is only possible in ideal circumstances, in N America, possibly. The WAAS/EGNOS system that is designed to enhance accuracy is mainly there for aircraft - in high latitude mountains (Europe) the geo synchronious satelites are too low on the horizon)
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Does the Suunto use GPS? I thought is just used altitude...
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mmmm.....data!
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
David Murdoch, one of their models (pictured above) also has a GPS receiver in addition to the usual altimeter.
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Our guide wore one (barometric only I think, not GPS), when we did the PdS circuit. Very interesting in the evening analysing the plot, cos it shows how many lifts/runs you managed. With a bit of maths, I think we worked out a crude total skiied distance, but GPS may be better there (certainly for fall line skiiers, not sure how it copes with side-side traversers).

I want one, but just haven't found the right one yet. My Etrex is a bit too chunky.
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David Goldsmith wrote:


Anyone tried this?


no I've tried this though: http://www.bivouak.net/gps/route.php?id_route=163&id_sport=1
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andy, when I worked in the PDS we reckoned the "standard" circuit was about 80km. What did you determine?
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David Murdoch, iirc First time we reckoned about 65km, BUT we took shortcut from LesCrosets back to Ardent Bubble (our start/end point), due to too much faffing and concern about missing last lift. So 80km for full circuit sounds about right. We did the full circuit last year, and 80km is what it felt like!
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Sounds like something to try out.

I have a Garmin Forerunner that I use for running I will have to give it a go in Tignes at Christmas. Will be interesting to download the data into SportTracks software and link it to Google Earth.

CP
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