23,845 feet and 21.73 miles of skiing (downhill)

I wondered how much vertical distance I could actually ski in one day. Since I never tried to calculate it and never heard anyone say what a high number would be I decided to wear my Forerunner GPS while skiing. I just tucked it away under my glove and left it running for about 7 hours (9AM -4PM). I got on the first lift at 9:05 and got on the last lift at 4:01 PM, so definitely a full day of skiing even with a 45 minute lunch break.

Since it was a decent powder day I only skied the steepest stuff on the mountain, which by Vermont standards isn't too steep but the terrain is still quite challenging - more so than that fluffy, light, wimpy stuff that falls out west.

So I wound up with a total of 23,845 vertical feet descending with 21.73 miles descending or flat. That's about 60% of the total mileage. The averge descening grade was 28%. I figured a good day of skiing with high speed lifts and not waiting around one could get 35,000 vertical feet.
The chart below shows 15 descents, so that's 15 lifts up.


Here's the google earth file.