Lifetime ski days..

[deadheadskier]

I would imagine between 800 and 900. I've had at least 5 seasons I recall getting over 80 days in and in one case 103 (personal all time high). I would put another 4 at 50+. That leaves me with 16 years left of which I probably averaged 15 times out.

 

[ctenidae]

I think I've skied around eleventy seven days in my life. Plus or minus a brazilian. Counting discounts and passes and such, I think that works out to about a buck three eighty a day. Not a bad deal.

 

[thebigo]

I have thought about this before, the best estimate i could come up is as follows:

average of 25 per year between the ages of 4 - 14
average of 10 per year between the ages of 14 - 24
average of 35 per year between the ages of 24 - 29 (present)

that would put me somewhere around 450

 

[JD]

6 years riding lifts=400
3rd year touring on tele skis=120 days.
Lift days =20=30,000 vert
Tour days=4-10,000 vert
Lift served vert=10,000,000
Self powered vert=600,000
roughly...
Be cool to have a gps and track your seasons vert accurately.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

GSS is a Stat-Rat :razz: feed by his OCD need for counting ... Probably due to excessive Sesame Street watching as a kid. :wink:

I did watch alot of Sesame Street when I was a little kid. I was always into counting. If my parents ever want to know when we went on a certain trip or went to a wedding or something, they just ask me and I instantly know the month and year. Mad Steezy yo..

 

[ERJ-145CA]

I estimate about 30 days between 1978-1986, zero days between 1987 and February of 2006. I've kept count since then and have 34 days between March 2006 and today, with 26 of those days last season and five so far this season.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Alot of people took a break from skiing for a few years or even a decade or more...wowser..

 

[wa-loaf]

I did watch alot of Sesame Street when I was a little kid. I was always into counting. If my parents ever want to know when we went on a certain trip or went to a wedding or something, they just ask me and I instantly know the month and year. Mad Steezy yo..

Kind of a Rainman with steeze? :lol:

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Kind of a Rainman with steeze? :lol:

Maybe I'm way steezier than Rainman..and do a mad steezy crotch grab spread eagle...

 

[ERJ-145CA]

Alot of people took a break from skiing for a few years or even a decade or more...wowser..

Here's my story of my 2 decade long break:

After I turned 16 my parents made me get a job on the weekends so that was the end of my skiing. After a while I just kind of forgot about it and how much fun I used to have. It was when I started flight instructing up in north Jersey and seeing Mountain Creek, Hidden Valley, Mt. Peter and Campgaw everyday when I was teaching that I started to think about it again and want to ski. But being a flight instructor is far from lucrative and I had a new child too, so no dinero. Once I got hired by the airline then I finally had the time and the money.

My wife asked me what I wanted to do on my first vacation with the company, which was in March of 2006, and I said I wanted to go to Bromley and ski. After those 2 days at Bromley I was hooked again. She took up snowboarding (she'd never been snow sliding before) while we were there.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Here's my story of my 2 decade long break:

After I turned 16 my parents made me get a job on the weekends so that was the end of my skiing. After a while I just kind of forgot about it and how much fun I used to have. It was when I started flight instructing up in north Jersey and seeing Mountain Creek, Hidden Valley, Mt. Peter and Campgaw everyday when I was teaching that I started to think about it again and want to ski. But being a flight instructor is far from lucrative and I had a new child too, so no dinero. Once I got hired by the airline then I finally had the time and the money.

My wife asked me what I wanted to do on my first vacation with the company, which was in March of 2006, and I said I wanted to go to Bromley and ski. After those 2 days at Bromley I was hooked again. She took up snowboarding (she'd never been snow sliding before) while we were there.

How was Shawnee today? Only 1 in 7 people who try skiing or snowboarding become lifelong participants..

 

[snoseek]

I have no idea how many total but i'm 35 and have averaged 80+ days per year since I was 18. It would be more but 2 painful years in the military knocks the average down a bit. As a child I obviously didn't ski that many days (probably more like 15 or 20).

 

[severine]

Mine's easy to count up. 1st season=18 days. And 3 days since then... grand total of 21. Hey, we all have to start somewhere. And since I only learned to ski 4 years ago (with good reasons why I missed 3 seasons since) that's not too bad.

 

[ERJ-145CA]

How was Shawnee today? Only 1 in 7 people who try skiing or snowboarding become lifelong participants..

Shawnee was fun today, they only had Lookout, Pennsylvania, Tecumseh and Chief Thunder Cloud open but I skied for about 4 1/2 hours today, that's a lot of runs. The snow was softer than Belleayre yesterday and it was misting all afternoon. I'll probably be at Camelback with my wife on Thursday, taking tomorrow off though to do some X-mas shopping.:sad:

 

[Geoff]

I don't know exactly. Somewhere around 1500. I've had a season pass almost every year since the late 1960's.

 

[SIKSKIER]

Days-1500+
Vertical-50 million
Runs-38,000
Turns-39,000
Hours on lift-3000 or about .75% of my life
Beers-Oh God,I need a new liver!

 

[tmcc71]

who knows, 1,000 or more

I have at least 1,000. I ski 100 days a season. Some years i slipped and hit 50 or so. In 25 years it is between 1,00 and 1,500.

 

[MarkC]

Anybody ever think of how many hours and what percentage of your life has been spent on a ski lift?

 

[ctenidae]

Days-1500+
Vertical-50 million
Runs-38,000
Turns-39,000
Hours on lift-3000 or about .75% of my life
Beers-Oh God,I need a new liver!

Wow- you only get two runs in a day? At an average of 1315 ft/run, that' snot much. Plus, you're doing it with barely more than 1 turn per run, so that must leave you a lot of free time.

 

[bvibert]

Wow- you only get two runs in a day? At an average of 1315 ft/run, that' snot much. Plus, you're doing it with barely more than 1 turn per run, so that must leave you a lot of free time.

Dude, 38,000runs/1,500days != 2runs/day. Unless that's that new math I've heard about???