What do you consider a big ski day?

A proper inbounds day starts at 10k

A big day starts at 25k

Depends on where and how I'm skiing. At KW, if you end up finding good snow in certain places it can take a lot of lift time to lap. So that will cut down on your vert. At a place like Mammoth or Palisades with all their high speed lifts, I'm often aiming for 30-35k if skiing solo and lines are short. If with my kid, we typically are getting about 18-22k for a big day.

It's been a while since I've properly toured. So a big day these days would be 7 feet. But a decade ago, a big day would be about 6k.

Skiing is fun. My kid is now into tracking their vertical. I've kind of moved pass it and really just enjoy skiing. Been a good few days.


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At 68 I'm down to 6K tops and 3 - 4 average bc. Quit resorts when they invented detachable chairs.

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One where you need to get a lot of sleep before.


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66 laps on Pali at abasin over 10 hours was a big day last April

Breaking is different than broken tracks.

Efficient tracks with consistent angle are different than inefficient tracks with constant steep/flat variations, high energy moves, slips, branch grabs, and double pole moves.

Some people handle altitude better, acclimated or not.

Continuous skinning is different than laps. Breaks matter, also to keep up with nutrition and hydration. Pace matters.

Doing 5x1000ft laps between 7000 and 8000 is a lot easier for me than starting at 10,000 and going to 14,000

etc

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So you havent shared with the rest of the class how many ft you have skinned in a day you fucking pussy

I live vicariously through my kid, Grandpa.

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yeah you suck kid, you have no clue, yer out of yer element

Big day at Fernie ~40k...

Big day at Tyrol ~30 laps... ~9k

Skinning...
Big day starts around 5K vert, but it depends on the conditions, the drive to the mountain, and who you're with.
Actual big day usually starts around 8k vert or so. Most I've successfully toured is 12k.

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A big day in the legendary Little Cottonwood Canyon.

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This post killed me. We get the same thing over here at Pally Valley.

You think you left the house early??? Try again.

3 hours later you're there, it sounds like WW3 with all the bombs going off, but somehow nothing is open by 11 am. You get in line for KT-22 only to realize that its going to be a 1-hour wait at best. After fist fighting someone who stepped on your skis, you finally get some tracked out pow that's as heavy as *great stuff* spray foam.

At 3:30 you decide to leave early to beat the traffic, and you miraculously make it to Truckee by 9 pm. Might as well sleep in the 7-11 parking lot and survive off roller grill taquitos next time.

Honestly, a day like that makes me so much more exhausted than any backcountry day under 8k.

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This post killed me. We get the same thing over here at Pally Valley.

You think you left the house early??? Try again.

3 hours later you're there, it sounds like WW3 with all the bombs going off, but somehow nothing is open by 11 am. You get in line for KT-22 only to realize that its going to be a 1-hour wait at best. After fist fighting someone who stepped on your skis, you finally get some tracked out pow that's as heavy as *great stuff* spray foam.

At 3:30 you decide to leave early to beat the traffic, and you miraculously make it to Truckee by 9 pm. Might as well sleep in the 7-11 parking lot and survive off roller grill taquitos next time.

Honestly, a day like that makes me so much more exhausted than any backcountry day under 8k.

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