Honorary Doctor of Maggot?

**Rideski** · 11-05-2006, 09:45 PM

Do the Mags bestow any such honor?

If so, I nominate Rainer Hertrich

To date Hertrich says he has skied more than 1,000 days in a row; 1,101 to be exact.

I'm at 37,000,000 vertical feet," said Hertrich.

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?O...7-c589c01ca7bf

Squatch · 11-05-2006, 09:52 PM

heh. i guess i shared a lift ride with him last year. he was around 750 then...glad to see he's still at it.

**Vets** · 11-05-2006, 10:48 PM

I shared a lift ride with him two years ago. Glad to hear that he is still at it.

**leroy jenkins** · 11-05-2006, 10:54 PM

If this is the same guy, I remember reading this on epic (yea, I admit it), and he claims to have skied some of those days in S. America.

I could belive that he found enough corn, glacial remains to ski all summer/fall every year, but saying you could make it to S. America and not miss at least one day on the plane is complete BS. maybe it was a different guy though, I can't remember.

Regardless, dude skis a lot.

**Rideski** · 11-05-2006, 11:01 PM

The thing that blows me away is the vertical. Any day I get 37,000 I feel pumped. This guy has done that 1,000 days in a row? (on average)

I wonder what is higher per day vert tallies would be...

And yeah, he said a portion was down in SA. I don't know how long the flight takes. Never been unfortunately. Would it not be possible with a couple of red eye flights?

**Vets** · 11-05-2006, 11:04 PM

When I rode the lift with him he spoke about the logistics of flying to SA without missing a day. He has got it down.

Squatch · 11-05-2006, 11:13 PM

hmm...i wonder about the vertical as well. when i talked to him he said he just skied in the mornings...maybe until about 1 PM. i suppose he could bang out about 2000 ft. of vert in 12 minutes or so, including the lift ride up. That's 10,000 ft/hr, which gets him in at just about average. However, this is the ideal case--no lines, high-speed lifts, bombing all the way.

**Adamantium** · 11-05-2006, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by leroy jenkins

If this is the same guy, I remember reading this on epic (yea, I admit it), and he claims to have skied some of those days in S. America.

I could belive that he found enough corn, glacial remains to ski all summer/fall every year, but saying you could make it to S. America and not miss at least one day on the plane is complete BS. maybe it was a different guy though, I can't remember.

Regardless, dude skis a lot.

yeah i don't know how likely it is that you can get to a south american ski area within 24 hours of leaving a north american ski area.

edit: beaten by Vets i guess.

**leroy jenkins** · 11-05-2006, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by Vets

When I rode the lift with him he spoke about the logistics of flying to SA without missing a day. He has got it down.

Ok, maybe he could get there within 24 hours, but how many places can you actually fly into down there? I know a lot of people fly into buenos aires and then take a bus or something, and theres no snow in buenos aires, sooooooooo

Although I am sure there are airports other than that, and I guess a few turns on a dirty snowbank would count as a day on snow. I'm sure if you've got enough money you can fly into more places than the airlines take you, and get your flights whenever you want, but thats not the sense I got of this guy. Who knows, I'm sure hes not just making this up, I'm kinda playing devils advocate anyways.

**Rideski** · 11-05-2006, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by Squatch

hmm...i wonder about the vertical as well. when i talked to him he said he just skied in the mornings...maybe until about 1 PM. i suppose he could bang out about 2000 ft. of vert in 12 minutes or so, including the lift ride up. That's 10,000 ft/hr, which gets him in at just about average. However, this is the ideal case--no lines, high-speed lifts, bombing all the way.

Oh I for sure was not doubting, I bet it is for real, I mean he has no motivation to lie, he's not making anything off of it, unless he gets a few random endorsements. But I bet it is just for him.

As far as 37,000, I am nothing speacial, and I can do that between first chair and about 2pm, (lift lines included) so I am sure this gonzo dude can beat that. I would guess he is getting 60,000- 80,000 at least on a good weekday jaunt....

**Camilo** · 11-05-2006, 11:40 PM

My girlfriend and I sat in front of him on the flight to Santiago from Portland and talked him up on the long flight last August. He lives in a tent up at Timberline in the winter and works as a groomer, skiing every day even if it's just for a couple of runs. The day of the flight, he took a run on Hood just past midnight, jumped in the car and flew out that morning to Chile. It was about 18 hours of travel, then he got in his rental car from the airport and drove straight to Portillo.

**RootSkier** · 11-06-2006, 12:01 AM

Flights from the US to Santiago often leave late at night, getting into Santiago early morning, where it would be easy to make it up for some turns. That part is easy.

**jfost** · 11-06-2006, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by Rideski

As far as 37,000, I am nothing speacial, and I can do that between first chair and about 2pm, (lift lines included) so I am sure this gonzo dude can beat that. I would guess he is getting 60,000- 80,000 at least on a good weekday jaunt....

wtf??? That would be 16 Peak-to-creek runs at WB - the "rendezvous" gondola is a 20 min ride, that's 5 hrs. of gondola riding alone without counting the peak chair time, and NO lines!!!

whups, I meant creekside gondola, then it's 2 more chairs to the top!

Squatch · 11-06-2006, 01:14 AM

i've skied at copper. trust me, with it's pitch and lift speeds, getting 40,000 before one o clock would be somewhat of a challenge. It could be done, no doubt, but difficult with copper's lift wait times, and certainly tiresome/boring to just bomb grommers day in and day out. also, I talked to him, and he told me he operates a cat in the evenings, and stops skiing at 1 usually.

**ak_powder_monkey** · 11-06-2006, 03:45 AM

40,000 isn't much of a stretch at alyeska you can do about 10,000 an hour no problem

**Rideski** · 11-06-2006, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Squatch

getting 40,000 before one o clock would be somewhat of a challenge

No doubt, but a few days at 40,000 and a couple here and there at 60,000 would make up for a few at 5 or 10.

I'm sure he has a couple of days off being a ski bum and all...

I googled his name, he's already been written up in Oustide (woohoo) and SI among others. Seems that challenges are what he is all about.

**Deep Days** · 11-06-2006, 02:18 PM

Where does the money come from? Aren't flights to SA a good chunk of change? Guess all he does is eat, sleep, drive the cat, and ski.

**Below Zero** · 11-06-2006, 03:15 PM

Wow, that guy deserves a "Gettin after it" award. Good for him.

Squatch · 11-06-2006, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by Rideski

No doubt, but a few days at 40,000 and a couple here and there at 60,000 would make up for a few at 5 or 10.

that's terrible math.

**Dodger** · 11-26-2006, 06:53 PM

More info on Rainer here:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...169586,00.html

(Thanks to Snowheads for finding the link.)

One quote from the article: "Then there's the time in Keystone when he racked up 115,500 vertical feet - his biggest single day ever." Must have started early that day.