What do you consider a big ski day?

[brutah]

This is something I've been thinking about lately....

What do you consider a big day vertical-wise? And where/when do you typically ski?

There are a lot of variables into how much vert one can rack up in a day; like, how busy the lifts are, snow conditions, lift speeds, etc. For instance last week, i logged 24000 vertical feet skiing both solo and with a friend in about 4 hours at Steamboat. A few days later, lift lines were longer and I logged 22000 vertical in about 5 hours skiing all day solo with the exception of the last hour. But I can log about 10,000 vertical per hour if I'm solo and skiing the Peruvian chair at Snowbird. And I've read about people doing 100,000 vertical feet in a day.

Backcountry skiing is another "big day" I would be interested in. But I have a better feel for what I consider a big day earning my turns.....

Tentatively, considering others responses, I would say:

• In bounds skiing = 16,000 vertical feet lost.
• Backcountry skiing = 6000 vertical feet gained.

So I'm curious what you consider a big ski day......

[wickstad]

Same as a big coincidence.

[Danno]

Do you want the answer for me today?

Or me from 15 years ago?

[Shaaarrrp]

When I'm tired at the end of the day. Many 20K days in LCC feel a lot bigger than 35K+ I've had at other resorts

[brutah]

Do you want the answer for me today?

Or me from 15 years ago?

Now would be preferred, who can remember 15 years ago???? 15 years ago, I skied 100,000 vertical a day, all day and it never snowed less than 6 inches overnight. You should have been there!

[XXX-er]

local fixed grip chair is a 15 minute ride, the choke point no matter how fast you ski the down,

27600 for the up but that was so 12 yrs ago altho it didnt matter how slow the chair was

[brutah]

local fixed grip chair is a 15 minute ride, the choke point no matter how fast you ski the down,

27600 for the up but that was so 12 yrs ago

I'm not talking about your personal best, but damn 27,600 vertical gain only using your legs in one day is massive...

I just want to know what YOU consider a solid/big day on the hill, vert-wise.

[EWG]

All vertical feet are not the same.

[Djongo Unchained]

In JH, fast chairs, good snow and smooth groomers with no waits:

40k on a groomer day, (10 trams or 15 Bridger ganjalas)
25k on an easy pow day, maybe 6k on a super mank day.

If I hike 1k it's a big day.

2/3 Granite laps is a big day.


Is xxx saying he's ascended 27.6k in a day under his own power?

[2FUNKY]

I’ve only logged vft a handful of times. For me a big inbounds day is bell to bell and legs are buzzing while sitting in my recliner at home sipping a nice cab sauve. That usually coincides with pow.
I cannot fathom hundo plus k vert, I guess if skiing groomers only but man that seems boring. I’ve gone hard af before in the right conditions, pow and vis and was able to get around five O’ish k on a few occasions, all off piste.


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[XXX-er]

well the way you asked the question its what you wanted to know

so we used to have an event as a fund rasier for spinal cord research where people did 18 laps around the chair/ 27500 ft in 1 day, start and finish at noon, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=...st%20challenge

i'm in that ^^ pack somewhere, most of thse people are on a team, not many are soloing, some are just there to party & checkout the cute skier girls, there are food/ kegs, a bitching sound system & DJ, a spoken word poet doing readings from sir eds book at 3am



maybe a couple doz normal BC skiers did it so its a very possible goal for an average to strong BC skier,
Angle Parking is the only person to do it 2 yrs in a row, only 1 woman the xc ski coach ever did it, a couple of identical twin 15 yr old brothers did it side by each, I was the oldest at 56, we had a great ultra runner/ shitty skier do it in < 13hrs

we had a quadrapalegic ( incomplete spinal ) ski 1 lap in 8 hrs

it was a thing to do but it was not really that much fun hitting 4 or 5 walls in the dark, after a few years everybody who wanted to had done it so the event petered out

the million ft in a year that Greg H ill and those other guys did just really floors me

[Djongo Unchained]

wtf? Is that a yes?

you skinned up 27, 600' cumulatively and skied it, Lap after lap, yes?

[XXX-er]

WTF do you think I said ^^ in the post,

did you look at the 125skiers in the link it was an event,

start at noon & finish at noon ski all night

so that is a big day cuz its all i could do

I only got to 21500 the next year and said fuck it, I quit that foolishness to drink beer get high with the patagonnia/ DPS/ dynafit reps and shoot roman candles at one another on piste at midnight

[westoxified]

20 high tease

[Djongo Unchained]

I’ve only logged vft a handful of times. For me a big inbounds day is bell to bell and legs are buzzing while sitting in my recliner at home sipping a nice cab sauve. That usually coincides with pow.
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Yo, 2F, punch in those emoji numbers, can't follow.

You're much stronger than me, I know. B2B is highly unlikely for me.

[Danno]

Now would be preferred, who can remember 15 years ago???? 15 years ago, I skied 100,000 vertical a day, all day and it never snowed less than 6 inches overnight. You should have been there!

Well, at 40 I would have said 3k was a big BC day, now the idea of 3k sounds very long, 17 years later shit is different

groomer day 20k is a big day
skiing hard terrain 15k is probably a big day
BC 1500' is a big day for me

[cat in january]

With you on the uphill, anything over 6k is a big day.

Lift served is tougher to say. If I am smashing moguls all the way down, probably 12k is a big day.

[Trackhead]

Age stratification: ski touring

In my mid-late 30s 10k was big day.
Now at 52, less active, 6-7k seems big.

[alias_rice]

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As for the question at hand: If lines are manageable I’ll be pretty gassed at
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[DoubleBogey]

delete the goddamn app

[brutah]

WTF do you think I said ^^ in the post,
....
so that is a big day cuz its all i could do

Hahaha for what its worth I thought you explained it well. 27600 is impressive, sounds like a really fun event!

My biggest days also always come when skiing is all I have to do that day.... And when I get a full day to ski, I typically go for a walk.

[XXX-er]

Hahaha for what its worth I thought you explained it well. 27600 is impressive, sounds like a really fun event!
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it was like having fun only different but my point IS a couple of doz more or less average BC skiers in BC young and old have solo'ed the whole thing so it is what's possible if only one trys hard enough

I had no idea how to train so e-mail Greg Hill right, buddy said the training will let you know you can do it ( it didn't ) also do speed work, uphill 1hr as fast as you can which i think was key

[byates1]

3 runs get a coffee

[Boissal]

Age stratification: ski touring

In my mid-late 30s 10k was big day.
Now at 52, less active, 6-7k seems big.

Similar but a more pronounced decay in my world.
5-6 years ago when I had all the freedom in the word and toured 50+ days a year 10k was a big day (as in motivation to go out the next day was low to non existent). I could do 6-7k every day for a week without feeling it too much.
Last year (first with a baby, in my 40s, after a couple of much busier years and injuries that prevented good summers on the bike) I had a couple of 7k days that damn near did me in and anything over 5k felt like a mission. Average day was 4k and that was sustainable for a few days.

First season back at the resort and the legs are starting to feel it at 20k, 15k if it's battle skiing. I got 2 to 2.5 hours of going balls out then I gotta head home or my knees start making weird noises.

[east or bust]

There are so many factors (conditions) that play into this. Also, IMO a big day should be at the edge of [your] limitations.

Resort: Is it a storm day, groomer day, what terrain are you skiing?

Generally speaking, a day over 40k in resort is what I’d consider a pretty solid day. Last year mid April was skiing with a good crew more or less bell to bell and racked up just shy of 60k. That was skiing multiple fast laps in the Alta chutes, T3, Amphitheater, etc. Good mix of technical terrain. That was a “big” day for me. I think skiing 100k on a fast groomer day is completely doable if that’s your goal.

BC: Main question is, are you breaking trail?

I’m a wimp. I think 4k would be a big day for me. 5k would be a, damn that was crazy. And 6k would take me a couple days to recover.


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