How fast do you ski? - Page 5

Funny: NOT!:

I hate it when that happens...

c'mon guys dont ignore the facts..

11st hour-
Hot Rod 'R': 76 on PRs
Mr. Altagirl: 72 on Pistols
BumZ: 71 on some long skinny things
Altachic: 62

2nd hour-
Altachic: 68
BumZ: 68? on Spatulas!
Endlessseason: 68 on beat up XXX's
ColdSmoke: 56 from a standing start on Anderson's
RTay: 49 " " "

so what his radar gun is off i take it? to who ever said it cant be done, c;mon and explain what happened here?

Einstein was right

Gee, that's weird. I just got back from having a few runs at lunch (Monday), and now I'm back after two hours and my computer is saying it's Wednesday, and this thread has grown from one to five pages.

If I'm reading my GPS correctly, it says I was skiing at the speed of light and time slowed down for me.... Einstein was right!!! :

Care to say when he was quoted saying that? Cus equipement sure has changed since his days.

Oh, and I definitly think 70+ is easily attainable. For all the people saying "well racers only get about 80 on a closed course..." I grew up racing, and can tell you that I almost always skied slower in a course because its not meant to just be a fun ripping run, its meant to be challenging. Its rutted, tight and turny.

I'm pretty sure my highest speeds have been off piste, probably Highlands Bowl.

OK, who's side are you on? The title of this thread is "how fast do you ski?" NOT "How fast can you ski?" The first implies on a regular basis, normal skiing. The second would imply trying to go faster than you normally would. The first is the thread we're in, and having a downhiller saying 60 is attainable, kinda speaks for the "whoa dude, you ain't going that fast" camp...
60 is easily possible, 80 is even possible, without special gear, in one of my posts, I said I was clocked at 74 in a speed event, but we're kinda saying nobody skis that fast on a regular basis....

I'm on the side that it is feasible to obtain speeds well above 60mph by just about any advanced intermediate, and above, level skier on normal skis and wearing normal clothing.

I'm totally aware what the original post was in relation to, but that's not the direction the thread has taken, long before I got involved.

I was attempting to show the feasibility of skiers reaching the speeds mentioned by means other than my own personal bragging...That's all.

With that in mind, I am a former cop and do have a calibrated radar gun, which I have used for measuring speed while skiing. I've made comparisons between gps units and the radar and have come to the conclusions that the gps units are w/in an acceptable accuracy level for measuring speed.

Through that, coupled with my personal experience operating various vehicles that are both exposed and have the rider w/in close proximity to the ground (dirtbikes, superbikes, mountain bikes, road bikes jetskis, snowmobiles and variuos others), I know w/out a doubt what it's like to ski well above 60mph and that it's possible w/out special skis, wax or speed suits.

We just had are annual spring fest at my local mountain and one of the contest was two-man teams skiing as many runs as possible in a 4hr period. The winning team was a snowboard team that straightlined all the required runs. I clocked them at speeds up to 60 mph on their snowboards and wearing normal clothes, including camelbaks.

I suspect that skis would've been even faster, but the couple of skiers competing weren't really pushing it.

And to answer the original question of the thread, I ski on average around 30-40mph on non-crowded blues and a little slower on technical steeps/bumps/trees and a little faster on big wide open bowls/steeps w/good conditions...This is all subject to change from day to day.

I don't typically quantify the days skiing experience based on how fast I skied, but rather how I handled the conditions. However, I can say w/honesty that on most days there's not too many skiers/boarders keeping up w/me, let alone going faster.

.... and getting back to the point of this thread, I typically ski at GS speeds averaging around 35 to 45 mph unless it's too crowded to ski safely at that speed, but I tend to choose my runs/lines to keep away from the crowds.

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Originally Posted by Jer
That's because it's hard to see them from the bunny hill.

Funny: NOT!:



Personally, I think this was quite funny......!

You didn't grow up racing Downhill, then. Or not any form of Downhill with which I'm familiar.

GPS Inaccurate

I skied with my GPS all season long. Set it up to poll every 1 second...and lots of other different settings. I find I need to take an average of all the readings because it can be VERY inaccurate AT TIMES (although....in the car it is always BANG ON). I know the cold affects it...and maybe trees, clouds, whatever. All I know is that by averaging it out, 35 MPH is very fast and I believe over 50 MPH to be VERY VERY RARE on a normal groomer without a speed suit and GS skis. I believe with my GPS that I hit 50 MPH A FEW TIMES....and that was very fast and in a tuck. When I stood up straight....the drag slowed you down FAST! If anyone would like my GPS tracks (for fun or whatever...) let me know!!!



James

I agree 100%. In normal ski clothing, speeds of 50 mph or higher on a ski run can't be achieved unless you're tucking a steep track. Fast skiing on groomers won't hit those speeds.

Well, yeah - the butt of the joke never thinks it's funny. Everyone else, though.....

Speaking of Butts Jer, what did you win, a years supply of gaper wax?

or The Jer-ry Lewis nerd of the year look alike contest?

Even DH was turnier than the way I naturally will ski an open run.

What the hell????? you don't freeski like on a DH course or Must have been some pussy DH then!

round 1:

Jer: 10pts for being very funny
Atomicman: -7pts for not being remotely funny.

You didn't ski any real DH then. What division was this in?

I have skied the runs on which DH courses (at a few different areas) were set when I was a kid many times. I have never, ever seen anyone ski them anywhere near as straight as they were set for a DH. If anyone did, he'd be nuts. If nothing else, you really, really do not want to take air when coming over a knoll blind.

I haven't skied any Masters speed events, so I can't speak to those from personal experience. However, even the little all-comers "citizens'" DH at the local area is set straighter and faster than I've ever seen anyone ski the run it's on when not on a race course. I'm not saying it's faster than I ski: I'm saying it's faster than anyone skis. The run is pretty much right under the chair, so it's not like I haven't seen several thousand people ski it.

I don't particularly have any horse in any race here. I'll even agree that it's highly likely you regularly ski considerably faster than I do.

But I feel some compulsion to note that your posts indicates one or more of these:
- You've never actually raced in a DH.
- Your perceptions about what you're doing when you free ski are very skewed (probably not the case, as they'd have to be so skewed you'd have trouble skiing)
- You're BSing everyone in some sort of attempt to impress us, in which case your credibility (with me, if no one else) is rapidly vanishing.

You seem really angry mr. atomicman.

I bet you're pissed cus you're 60 and those darn whippersnappers ski faster than you huh?

Think whatever you want. I quit racing when I was 14, so it was by no means world cup DH courses, but I think they'd be on par with masters races.

I really don't care about impressing people here at epic. In fact, I'm not concerned about impressing people anywhere. The people whose opinions I care about are not the type to be easily impressed.

Wishful thinking dude!

Wrong on all counts!

I think you're starting to lose it. You're reverting back to your old wordsalad style of posting.

You really don't know the meaning of the word exponential do you?

Can't read english?

Apparantly, you don't!

Maggot, Glytch and Jer.:

Perfect names for you 3.

I can read English pretty well, it's your posts I have trouble with. For example:
The words are clearly English, however the way they're phrased is nearly incomprehensible...

...and here - the comma placed after "apparently" implies that you're trying to say "Apparently I don't and niether do you".