Ok, here are the explanations. <B>(don't read this message if you're not deeply dedicated to skiing, cause you will laugh, cry or get mad)</B>. Hmm, I hope people won't think I'm too much sick, after reading this... I'm a real stats dedicated + a dedicated skier, so the mix is quite dangerous. <BR> <BR>First, few little fast facts about me and skiing. <BR> <BR>7½ y/o : I began to ski (jan 1988) <BR>(and began to like ski in feb 1988) <BR> <BR>8 y/o : I was always asking the name of the trails we skied to my father. (I took my first extreme trail at 8, too) <BR> <BR>9 y/o : I was knowing every ski areas in the province with all their stats and I invented the formula that I still use to rate the ski areas size today. <BR> <BR>10-11 y/o : I began to draw some trail maps. I really skcu for drawing in general... and trail maps is probably the only thing I'm good to draw today <IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/clipart/happy.gif" ALT="
"> <BR> <BR>I kept my lift tickets a long time, in my early ski years, but I threw all to the garbage, one day (arggggggggghhhhhhhh what a mistake). <BR> <BR>In 1993, I did my 1st big summary of a ski season. I still laugh to see my drawn trail maps into it, although it's less worst than the very first ones. <BR> <BR>On this summary, I have my very 1st chart of best ski areas. The top 5 in that time was #1 : Val Saint-Côme, #2 : Garceau, #3 : Mt Blanc, #4 : Mt Gabriel and #5 was Tremblant. I also had my top 25 toughest trails ever. The "Sous-Bois" of Mt Blanc was my #1... it's still in my top 50 today. <BR> <BR>During summer 1995, I began to write the trails that I was hiking and the vertical I hiked in my days. So in november, when my ski season started, I did the same thing for my reports. (not vertical, though) <BR> <BR>Stats I had at this moment : <BR> <BR>Date ; Mountain ; trails taken (with their level) ; the toughest to less tough rating for the trails and the open lifts..... and a trail map drawn with color codes. <BR> <BR>If you think I was crazy when I was doing this, please DON'T READ the following 3 paragraphs. <BR> <BR>Now I must say it's really easy and fast, cause I took a part of the boring summer 2002 to draw and scan the trail maps for every ski areas where I ski, so I have just to print and to fill with few colors the trails I've skied, etc... but for the stats sheet, it's a little bit more complete than it was in 1995, although I also have complete models in Excel, so it's really fast to do : <BR> <BR>Date ; mountain ; skis used ; trails taken, Rating 1-10 for them ; First trail taken in the day ; last one ; Number of times I skied each trail ; level of difficulty of the trails ; approx. percentage taken ; percentage of the trails that were open (only the ones I took) ; the number of times I took the trails closed if so ; the top 5,10 or 20 toughest trails and favorite trails of the day (depending of the number of trails taken) ; The lifts taken, how much times each ones ; the approx. vertical of each one and the vertical feet (and metric) skied in the day. <BR> <BR>Oh yeah, it's true, I also do a little resumee in words... pretty cool to read, during summer after. <BR> <BR>OK, I know what you're going to say (or at least think), and it's true, I'm simply sick and I should see a psychiatrist LOL. 3-4 years ago, it would have been true, but now, to do the draw + stats, <B>it can take me 15 minutes</B> for a little mountain to max 1h for places like Tremblant. I prefer this than to go drink a beer after a ski day... that's all. All those stats are actually quite useful for me. I really like to do stats, so it's a manner to have fun after my ski days. In 2001-02, I was losing really too much time on that and it was becoming a real problem for me, but now, with the models, it's extremely fast to do, so I stopped to consider me as sick, doing it <IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/clipart/happy.gif" ALT="
"> <BR> <BR>For the vertical skied, I just count it since late season 2001-02, when I skied with a telemark dedicated (who provided me in trail maps for years, before I met him) who had an altimeter and counted his vertical for each ski days. I liked the concept <IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/clipart/happy.gif" ALT="
"> <BR> <BR>So that's it. I think it's the first time ever that I say all I do after a ski day (except Patrick who has seen some of my resumees few months ago). I have the info (but not the time + interest) to make thousands of different stats, related to my ski since 1995, but you know, IMO, it remains quite less worst than all the statistics that are kept in baseball !!!!!!
It's individual... I mean, most of the people wouldn't like to act identically to other persons... so why isn't the same thing in skiing ?
