Only skiing one lap, what is the most vertical a human has ever skied? I'm pretty sure it's gotta be BC, but what about inbounds, what's the biggest vertical? I think I heard something about 6,000 feet somewhere.
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Only skiing one lap, what is the most vertical a human has ever skied? I'm pretty sure it's gotta be BC, but what about inbounds, what's the biggest vertical? I think I heard something about 6,000 feet somewhere.
Mount St. Elias
I think it's the biggest skiable vert on the planet.
There's more than 6K off the Aiguille du Midi
Plenty of Euro places top 6000, I think Cham's got 9000, so BC is not the answer. As far as any human (not 'inbounds'), I would imagine it would be one of the Himalayan descents, but maybe the actual vert doesn't exceed 9000--dunno what's been done in one shot there.
I think this, might top St. Elias. Roughly 11 500 ft of vert.
Mt St Elias can be over 18k descent fairly certain that's the longestQuote:
Originally Posted by H-wood
make that more than 9kQuote:
Originally Posted by H-wood
What about Harry Jenks, he skied the Lhotse traverse to Everest then down to Kathmandu, that was around 7,000 meters (23,000 American Feet). Although I heard he had to take off his skis to cross the Dudh Koshi river, so Ed Viesturs doesn't consider it an 'official' descent.
From the river Hunza to the summit of Rakaposhi in the Karakoram is an 18,000 vertical slope. I believe this may be the world's largest sustained drop.
Wickersham Wall, Denali, 14,500ft Tyson Bradley & John Monteccuco or Adrian Nature (sources vary)Quote:
Originally Posted by hemas
Les Deux Alpes in France has 7540ft of vert of continuous groomers.
Pretty sure it's not here:
http://www.alpinevalleyohio.com/images/trailmap.jpg
Two more Xtreme Parks than Denali though.
And a permanent mogul field to boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by bad_roo
Featuring up to five permanent moguls, in a good year. So hard to store them over the summer, though.
SW Chutes on Adams get you at least 6000ft of uninterupted skiing with 8000 vertical possible but thats bc
Its here, Cloudmont, AL
http://www.cloudmont.com/cloudsnow.jpg
Skiing
We have two one-thousand foot, beginner-intermediate slopes. Two "pony lifts" take skiers to the top of the slopes that have an elevation of 1,800 feet and a vertical rise of 150 feet.
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Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki
Uncle Bob's Avenue has some sik step-downs. I have shredded out AT LEAST 50-60 feet of vert just from that one run.
3500m = 11,500ft.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bullet
meteorite, chugach mtns, outside valdez ak....don't know the vert...seemed huge
The St. Elias descent to the ocean has never been done AFAIK. That 14,000 foot run on Denali sounds like it might be tops.
Has the 14000ft run on Denali been done in one shot? I know the first descentionists skied it in stages (bottom up or something?). Has it been skied since then in a continuous "run"?
Yea, that pussy really should have gapped the river. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ireallyliketoski
Lift served 2880m (9450ft) Aiguille du Midi to Chamonix
BC 4250m (13940ft) Mont blanc to Le Fayet
As far as I know this hasn't been beat yet, it could be in theory.
If done in spring, a great pretty darned straight down the fall line descent is the south side of Rainier to the Nisqually Bridge, about 10,500 feet if I recall, and you could keep going to Longmire adding a couple thou more. The Kautz, Wilson Headwall, and Fuhrer Finger all will go.