JF Sunday 1/29

[C1erArt]

Another good day, race on Challenge, practice on Telstar. High 20s, partly sunny, no wind. Nicely groomed again, with an inch of powder on top from overnight flurries.

 

Got there early and skied for 90 minutes until the race teams started skiing in groups. Lapped Rivershot and Floyd's - something about hitting the top of Floyd's full speed and seeing the slope just drop away from you. Although Rivershot was faster today, but crowded up sooner.

 

With all my bitching and moaning, I guess there is a reason why I'm still at JF:

 

Edited January 29, 2017 by C1erArt

[tnt]

Are the yellow lines your actual travel, and the blue and black lines jus the trails themselves?  That's a cool ap.

[C1erArt]

Exactly, you can show a line chart of your speed and altitude, and 'play' through your day.  It is Navionics ski.  They are a GPS company, and although other ski apps may have more features, after trying 3 or 4 other apps, I find Navionics to have the most consistent and what I think is the most accurate speed.  If you click on a run on the left side, it highlights it on the right side map.

 

You will notice at the bottom of Floyds, the track goes off the trail - I think thats because I tend to go into a half tuck and lose the view to the south where the satellites tend to be and the phone loses the satellites.  But other apps are worse about going off track.

 

The battery usage is pretty good, but if the battery dies, you lose the day.  Also, if you leave it on for the drive home, there is no way to delete that part of the track.

Edited January 30, 2017 by C1erArt

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

The guy we skied with the other day but 81mph skiing the same speed as me and atomic Jeff and we didn't buy it. We figured around 70mph+ though.

[C1erArt]

70 is pretty damn fast, not going to get there at Frost (unless you skate the flats and tuck headwalls and I'm not sure about making that turn at the bottom of Floyds), and I'm not getting there period. My son did the mid 70s at Whistler last year on his Fischer World Cups. 80s is Lindsey Vonn downhill speed on a very good day (her record is 83).

 

There is a big difference in ski apps - if the app loses your position it can give a false very high reading when it re-obtains it. The algorithm Navionics uses tends not to do that - you can look at the graph on either side of the high reading and see if the high reading was an artificial artifact (although I think artificial artifact is redundant).

Edited January 30, 2017 by C1erArt

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

58 seems unreal at JF since atomic Jeff didn't even hit that on radar gun day on Floyds

70 and even 80 out here is very doable

[C1erArt]

Icy slope and well waxed skis.  I can see you picking up some speed on that last drop of Razor's Edge.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Icy slope and well waxed skis. I can see you picking up some speed on that last drop of Razor's Edge.

Yeah atomic Jeff hit 74 on razors and me 64 middle razors. Definitely not that much last drop

Edited January 30, 2017 by GrilledSteezeSandwich

[RidgeRacer]

Are the yellow lines your actual travel, and the blue and black lines jus the trails themselves?  That's a cool ap.

 

Remember "Phresheez"? That was all the rage back in the day. They even posted on here.