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ski vertical in one day(New England)

nhskier1969

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What's the most vertical you skied in one day? New England ski areas only

I skied just over 50k on a midweek at Sugarbush. I rode the North Ridge Express, no one was there, lots of vertical off one lift. I probably could have done more but I didn't want to make that "last run of the day." I was spent
 

Hawk

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I have no idea. I don't track anything when I ski. I just ski. I also spend most of my days in the woods, puckering around or sking bump runs. Not really the way to rack up vert.

I was once was told by my techy friend that we did 70K when we went to Zermatt. A bunch of runs were around 4K Vert. That adds up quick.
 

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Probably Jiminy Peak. Our ski club tickets went til 6pm for a number of years and we'd get there at 9am. I'd ski the whole day, and this was with the 6-pack. Probably did 60k vert or close to it. That's a run every 10 minutes which is very very easy to do at Jiminy. 5 minutes up, 55 seconds down!

One April weekend at Killington a decade ago or so I counted that I had done 60 runs. All spring moguls and trees save for 3 or 4 groomers. I always thought that was decently impressive. That's back-to-back 40k-45k each day. That was probably my last ever bell-to-bell (freeskiing) weekend ever come to think of it.
 

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I've had some big days but it was training. The best days weren't about vertical. Powder days at Snow ridge with 10 cars in the parking lot. Powder days at Plattekill on a Friday. Closing out the year on the palli face A basin. Those are the ones I remember most of all.
 

BodeMiller1

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SL 40,000 Cannon far more- SR too much fun to ski.
 

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joshua segal

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I don’t know of anyone who can beat Scott Howard’s record of 160k in one of the last scheduled 18 hour Midnight Madnesses held at Crotched Mountain. It was documented on the old “Alpine Trace” app. 70.4k is my best.
 

drjeff

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That I can remember, was 45k vertical at Okemo this past April, and that was with my 1st lift ride about 15 minutes after the 9AM 1st chair, maybe a 20 minute lunch/restroom break in the early afternoon, and I quit about 30 minutes before last chair as some moderate rain had rolled in.

Probably had a bigger day at Wildcat back in the 90's, I remember that my wife and I did somewhere around 30 runs in 1 day, not all were off of the summit Quad though, but most were
 

LuckyStrike

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I wonder what the most vert one could get using only magic carpets. That would be far more of an impressive feat.
 
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