Most vertical in one day - personal

[bullhorn]

Did 24 runs off of KT one bottomless powder day a squaw. That night, every time my wife or I shut our eyes we got the sensation that we were powder skiing again. Was really weird and a bit disconcerting.

[Shredgar]

Lots of good skiers here, way to get after it.

Lift served: 14 trams at Snowbird, 40.6k' on a fat April powder day, avoiding groomers. There were walk on trams & we were motivated. This was ~15yrs ago, pre-Mineral Basin, back when I was teaching alpine skiing. All non-stops but one; fell into a bomb crater first run in Wilbere Bowl that I never saw from the face shots. Maybe my best day on the lifts.

Backcountry vertical: 11.3k' freeheel in the Tetons 2/15/04. 10" blower on a soft base. Broke trail & put five descents into a favorite 2,100' face + 800' back up to the yurt in 9.5 hrs. Hope to beat that this season.

Backcountry distance: 36 miles & 5k' from the winter trailhead on Henry's Fork up & down King's Peak Utah 3/29/03. 12 hours on skis. This is usually a three day summer backpack. Annual trip w/friends, last Saturday in March. Trackhead?

[subtle plague]

9 runs at the krippenstein and we missed the first tram which would have allowed us to make 10.
this equals 13.500m vertical which would be 44 291 feet.
Untracked powder that was, of course.

11 times would be possible, but more is hard. you'd have to make several 15 minute runs down to the station and there must not be any crowd.

[phatfreeheeler]

I think I still hold the record for Brighton at 37 laps on Great Western lift from 7:45am-4pm with a short lunch break. That's 64,500 ft of vert and over 6 hours on that chair I could have gotten more but I got bored of the groomers and took quite a few trips through the crud. I wouldn't mind doing a 24 hr race some day.

That dude who did 40,000 vert of hiking is nuts.

[Hacksaw]

almost 51K one day heliskiing.

[Vitamin I]

I stumbled onto this thread while searching for something completely different.

I take it we're talking lift served most vertical?

Well, Greg Hill did 40,000 vertical of skiing under his own power (skinning-no lifts) in 21 hours. That's a fair bit.

Robert Webb of Mt. Shasta likely held that record (at age 40) with his 37,572ft before Child took the record, although Webb stashed 6 pairs of skis at the summit beforehand, then climbed each lap without skis and skied down each lap. http://pweb.jps.net/~prichins/shastarw.htm

As an experiment, I skied 86k lift-served at Squaw in late-season 2000. Started at 9am even though lifts opened at 8:30am. Put in 19 on KT-22, 19 on Headwall, plus a few other inefficient lifts just to cut the boredom. After 4pm closing, I kept skiing MUCH slower Tram laps for night-skiing (I recall that about 70k of my 86k was before 4pm). I didn't ski anything very interesting---just went for vert. You figure out pretty quick that in these events like 24 Hours of Aspen, the final vert is determined WAY MORE by the lift speed than athlete skiing speed.

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[Rasputin]

I've done 42k at Snowbowl a few times (though anymore I opt for a more leisurely day, stopping at the booze box on the last trip down from the top), the lifts are "slower than the sands of time" (credit to Uncle Crud), so there's a limit to how many laps one can get in during Snowbowl's 6.5 hours of lift service.

[jrbd]

The self-powered record was upped again last year in the 24 Hours of Sunlight:

Eric Sullivan of Crested Butte, set the new world record for most human powered vertical feet in 24 Hours. With 34 completed laps under his belt, he reached 51,068 vertical feet which is 47.6 miles.

Wow.

[grrrr]

I've broken 55,000.

Best single run was 5990.

[UTaho']

I'm sure I've done over 40K, maybe 50K occasionally. Got 8K in one shot on the north side of Shasta once. A friend of mine did 72K at my home area but that was pretty much non stop bell to bell, on a 24K high speed quad.

[dannyboy]

Greg Hill has skiied 50k of backcountry vert in one day. Badass!
http://www.pawprince.com/pawprince/w.../greg_hill.htm

[jwolter7]

8 top to bottom nonstop runs at Blackcomb=45,000' vertical (86?) with GS race skis. Down Saudan's then a quick side step up the final part of some little traverse that's now gone to the Honeycomb/Cruiser area then all the way down to the base area. That was back before Blackcomb had such long lift lines. I remember the lift rides alone would take something close to 45 minutes each run. Just enough time to enjoy the rest, a little 420 in the expressway traverse trees, and a bit of time to enjoy amazing coast mountain scenery from the seventh heaven lift, then back at it.

The last year I spent in Bellingham (07) it took me all season before I could ski one run nonstop down Franz's from the top of Whistler... Getting old sucks! But these kind of memories help some

*Best single run-US 6,600' on Shasta, Avalanche Gulch (91)
*Best single run-Alps 9,000' Aig du Midi all the way to Chamonix (99)
*Most fun vertical-racing the tram down Jackson going through Corbert's and Lonnie's.

[Adamantium]

holy thread-necromancy batman!

[MickeysEars]

I'd guess at about 27,000 doing 3 laps of the Midi in Chamonix all the way to the valley floor... Have no idea if i've ever done anymore as dont give a crap really as i'd prefer one decent run than chasing vertical ! Now if it's a perfect powder day and you do 10 laps of the Tram in Jackson then that's an epic day !

[randosteve]

The self-powered record was upped again last year in the 24 Hours of Sunlight:

Wow.

Pretty sure both the male and female record was set last winter.

http://www.tetonat.com/2009/03/new-m...world-records/

Ekkehard Dörschlag - 18,288M - 60,350′
Anne Marie Gross - 12,700M - 41,910′

My best is about 43K'...human powered...at 24 Hours of Sunlight...maybe 2004?

[huck4bucks]

Last March I did 84,246' of lift-powered from 9am-4pm at Diamond Peak. It was 57 runs down the Flume.

In March 2008, I did 70,128' at DP; 42 runs down the Flume and 12 runs down Lakeview.

I wish there were more endurance skiing events. They're really fun.

[jerr]

It's never occurred to me to count vert, or runs for that matter.

I do it for the music.

[carvedog]

It's never occurred to me to count vert, or runs for that matter.

I do it for the music.

winner. winner. chicken dinner

[Rasputin]

winner. winner. chicken dinner

If I'd been aware that a chicken dinner was at stake, I would have tried harder.

[Tectonically_Neglected]

holy thread-necromancy batman!

I chuckled...

[mntlion]

50K in a heli one day (2 years as staff at a heli lodge)

45K on hill, (SSV doing laps in the dive, Got 10 laps in one day, 36 minutes a lap average, with Merlyn)

[tex1230]

I flew White Plains-Chicago - Kansas City - White plains one day - in a private Plane that cruised around 50,000 feet - so that's 300,000 feet in 24 hours...

[Johnny Deep]

Can I post what someone else did so's I can look kewl?

[StingRay]

I did 18K in 1 day in Revelstoke BC last March

[AdironRider]

Last day of lift served this past spring I closed out Wildcat with 34 laps of corn harvest. At 2112 vert per lap thats like 70k plus. I tend to usually push my vert totals on the last day of my season, unless its a pow day, then its just the best run I can get my board on and the vert doesnt mean shit. Havent had a pow day end of the season though yet. I had more in me but my buddies werent having it.