Acidchrist

[Patrick]

Alta vert 2020
call it roughly 6 minutes to top on collins.

Collins vert is closer a maximum of 1870. 80k. That is 43 rides.
Question for those that keep track (datalog from S6 are sometimes handy, although I never rarely look at them). Is the ride really 6 minutes, sometimes impression aren't the reality.

I agree with you that 6 minutes down is too conservative.

likely it would be to prove a point, but on paper it is possible, very possible.

Didn't say it was, but I don't think many of us would be able to ski 80-85k in a normal ski day.

BTW ive done MANY 30K plus half days (well a little after 2pm) at the bird...heck ive done 18K before noon in mineral, and that was a pow day.

I've skied 20-25k day at Tremblant after bringing my daughter for school at 8:30am over 2 hours/100 miles away and back in time to pick her up at the after-school daycare afterwards meaning I skied from roughtly only 11-3, however I wouldn't be able to keep that pace for 7-8 hours.

 

[rfarren]

As I said in the other thread. I called the old man today, and he told me my numbers were way off. It was around 50k.

 

[Bobby Danger]

that's back to back to back to back standing there waiting for the tram to arrive not scrambling to make the car !! so in actually it's making the run in five min. three thousand vert. even on groomers is smoking. never mind it's bird terrain . very few establishments can lay claim to having terrain even comparible to snowbirds in bounds !!!

 

[Marc_C]

Collins vert is closer a maximum of 1870. 80k. That is 43 rides.
Question for those that keep track (datalog from S6 are sometimes handy, although I never rarely look at them). Is the ride really 6 minutes, sometimes impression aren't the reality.

Correct - Collins vert is 1870'. The ride is 8.5 minutes.
Realistically, no one is doing an 80K day on Collins. Even the revised claim of 50K for rfarren and his father is seriously stretching credibility. It assumes being able to keep that pace up most of the day, zero lift lines, zero lift stoppages, zero instances of throwing the skis sideways to avoid a collision, and zero instance of utter boredom skiing ultra high speed Mambo/Meadow/Corkscrew laps...over and over and over and over and over.....

There's more spray in this thread than that from a high school football team, even without the Princess of Crud's contributions.

 

[Tony Crocker]

I agree with MarcC's comments above. I made some personal comments in the Whiteface thread. With regard to Snowbird the tram does give one a shot at big vertical. But as noted Snowbird's verts aren't cheap. I did have a memorable day of 41,250 during the Olympics in 2002: viewtopic.php?t=4583. I wonder what BobbyD could have done that day.

This thread does get me thinking more about Sun Valley in 2 weeks though...

 

[Powderqueen]

This thread does get me thinking more about Sun Valley in 2 weeks though...

Be sure to get that watch set and let us know how you do. SV is probably THE BEST place to rack up vert, as you got high speed lifts and 3k of fast groomers to work with.

 

[Bobby Danger]

41,250 is a pretty big day considering the terrain ! could only say i would invite anyone on a 50,000 vert. odyssey at the bird & and see if you had the fortitude within ones self to last 30,000. 50,000 verts. at snowbird is much different than almost anywhere else on the continent never mind trying to compare anything east of colorado with here.

 

[Powderqueen]

Acidchrist skied at Snowbird yesterday. I wonder how many vert he racked up. Wonder how the boy is feeling and where he'll be rampaging today.

 

[Patrick]

50,000 verts. at snowbird is much different than almost anywhere else on the continent never mind trying to compare anything east of colorado with here.

Not that I disagree with that statement, but the winner at last week's vertical challenge at MRG managed 28 runs on the single considering that the single ride is approximately 12 minutes, that's 56k. The Vertical challengers descent is down The Chute and Liftline, not the easier terrain to rank up all that vertical East or West.

http://www.madriverglen.com/triplecrown/

The grueling Vertical Challenge is the second leg of the Triple Crown, testing how much vertical competitors can rack up in one day. To make matters worse the competitors are required to ski the demanding Chute - Lift Line trails.

 

[flyover]

. . . the winner at last week vertical challenge last week at MRG managed 28 runs on . . . Chute and Liftline. . .

My hat's off to, well, everybody who competed, but especially to the freeheeler who managed 27 runs. :-s

 

[Powderqueen]

Seems that Acidchrist is too whooped to post

 

[Patrick]

Seems that Acidchrist is too whooped to post

What do you expect? Skiing 120k in one day is pretty hard work - 30k of that being earn-yours-turns skinned with his Marker's Dukes. :lol:

 

[Powderqueen]

No big vert yesterday...the boys went to Powmow and the north faces were stiff and unfun. That was MY idea, and it was a bad one. I didn't realize that it got so warm since the snow of 3 days ago. We went to Powmow 4 days after the snow and it was stellar. This is the problem with going so late in the season. I guess I've been spoiled during my early Feb visits.

He's definitely having more fun than his sub at Greek Peak whom I saw yesterday. This guy moved to New Mexico and now is wondering WTF he's doing at Greek Peak right now.

 

[Tony Crocker]

Today was the first big warmup in LCC. Only slopes with at least some south exposure had any spring transition before today. PowMow is of course lower elevation and presumably warmer, with a wide range of exposures. There were 3 days between the big storm last Friday and the modest one on Tuesday. Those days were partly cloudy and mostly in the 20's in LCC. So most of Wednesday's powder skiing was pretty good with partially consolidated winter snow under the ~8 inches new. On the more southern aspects of Mineral Basin the subsurface was refrozen and best avoided. I suspect this condition was widespread at Powder Mt.

March is my most frequently skied month, and thus I have developed a strong preference for high altitudes and north exposures. The other places are best visited during the colder months when the sun is weak, as in my Canadian trips. The exception would be a major storm that would bury the subsurface. That means at least a foot, and if terrain is steep 18 inches would probably be a better benchmark. Tuesday storm was not close to that. I suspect Powder Mt. skied well last Friday because that storm was big enough.