Miles per day

Volf wrote: 3 runs an hour over 7 hours = 80 km a day = 50 miles a day.

Not sure i would want to be on the same lift 21 times in a day :D might seem like a groundhog day..

Are you being sponsored by the mile then :shock:

MogulMonkey wrote:
Not sure i would want to be on the same lift 21 times in a day :D might seem like a groundhog day..

Technically in the French Alps it would be 'Journée Marmotte' :)

According to the Dolomiti Superski website I skied ~368 km (228 miles) in 13 days, which averages as 17.5 miles per day. Longest was ~25 miles (with stops for coffee and lunch and back by 4 pm) but in good conditions 30+ miles would not be unreasonable for me (decent intermediate who is not particularly fit). A couple of the days were pretty short due to tricky conditions or skiing on my own, bringing the average down. A lot depends on the conditions, how good your skiing is in those conditions, if you need stops for lunch etc., how fit you are and how difficult you find the runs. 130 km in 2 days is impressive; I think I'd need 3 for that distance – hat off to those that did it!

Best of luck and hope you raise lots of money for your chosen charity :-D

My learn-ed ski buddy friend type person has reliably informed me that last week in monterosa, we skied a minimum of 75km per day, and that was just getting from champoluc to the other end of the area and back, not including the runs we may have done a couple of times or the amount of off piste.
I'm quite surprised by how much this was, although I have to say I'm feeling it now I've come back!!!

For a charity run you should get or rent some touring skis and walk up! Those guys walking up the side of the piste are not there because they are too mean to buy a lift pass, they do it because it feels fantastic to earn that beer at the top and to earn that ski down. Three miles should do you, unless you are a very fit and experienced tourer.

Couldn't you do it on vertical metres skied - far easier to measure.
75kms in a day if excluding lifts is unlikely IMHO, but very possible / likely including lifts.
Had the Garmin in Avoriaz this week and had to ski around son's lessons, but average distance has been about 10km/hour including lifts, and although not hooning, we're not slow either.

Dorset Boy wrote:Couldn't you do it on vertical metres skied - far easier to measure.
75kms in a day if excluding lifts is unlikely IMHO, but very possible / likely including lifts.

Measured distance from start point to daily average return point, which would have included lifts, but most days each distance on a lift was skied and the lift ridden again.
It's not unlikely, its quite probable, but maybe only in an area where you get straight on every lift without waiting for anyone else.