January 3, 2011, Crystal Mountain Gondola Cruise

I stand corrected....for my part...impressive...

Those were the days. Went night skiing March 7, 1996 with my daughter and her friend. Total cost of lift tickets were $29.97. It was KISW's promotion night. $9.99 per ticket.


Total vertical feet for the 95-96 season was 815,550 v/ft.

Club Vertical. Blast from the past.

We used Club Vert to get the 5$ discount on a day ticket and usually only hit the counter about half the time, tracking vertical on the Avocet.

Amar, I agree the only was to accurately total vertical is using the lift stats.  I don't think, however, that dynamic pressure is increasing the Avocet's vertical reading.  Full dynamic pressure would only be an issue if you wear the altimeter on your head with it's pressure port facing directly forward causing a Stagnation Point .  There is a point, even on airplanes that they read actual altitude pressure .  So, dependiing on where you wear it, it could read higher, the same, or lower than actual altitude as you mode.  Since I keep my Avocet in my fanny pack behind me in a low pressure area at speed, does it read less vertical than reality?  Since I ski faster than my buddies  , why do our altimeters read nearly the same at the end of the day?

I've always thought the Avocet's errors were more related to its temperature compensation and differences from body heat and/or sunlight messing with altitude.

All in all, way too anal, and I use it just for general indications.  I've had 20K days that are some of the best of memories and 40+K days of boring Iceberg repeats.  Thanks for a stimulating a romp through the fluid dynamics I haven't thought about for many, many  years.  Took some Wiki roaming to ramp up the memories.

Kkz

And Vertical George with his crazy fat skis! (It was 1994, my skis were still 64mm underfoot GS racing skis, and most everyone else's were that width too.) What a character, rode the lift a number of times with him. Heard that he once managed 58 rides on Rex in a day (over 92,000 vert), on one of the spring days when they stayed open until 5pm -- can anyone confirm that number?

Can't confirm that number for fact, but he has ADD and just did the same run over and over again. The real funny part is that his skiing technique never improved from the 1st vertical foot to the last. Had he improved his stance/form efficiency he could have really cleaned up. And when he broke one of his skis he just replaced it with another ski, not of the same make, Same with a broken boot. Quite a character, nice guy if you could figure out a way to have a two way discussion with him.


DDK-I'm not a real vert counter, but 65,000 is a pretty attainable number of vert if you are just yo-yoing the groom for 3/4 of a day. I'm sure you do it all the time and just don't realize it.

Unfortunately, George's biggest claim to fame was being called a "hamster in a wheel" by Powder Magazine when they did a short blurb on Club Vert the next fall. Was just thinkin' the other day that I haven't seen him for a while. He was relentless.

Kkz