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--- Dana Dorsett <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Then there's the issue of what counts as a "day" of skiing. > Do I count 200' of earned turns on dregs of the WaWa glacier > as a day (took less than 30 minutes to/from the car)? No, but I enjoy pictures of this sort of foolishness. > Or how about the times I slapped on skis and for a quick couple > of laps for 50' in the neigbor's yard? Definitely not. > A drive-by ski run poaching a 300' quicky at Nashoba Valley > driving away in wet ski boots? The furtive aspect gets you bonus points, but I still don't think this would qualify as a ski day. > Skiing in Sharon's backyard. Nope. I shudder to mention Sharon, as she might come up with some *dirty* interpretation of this. As far as ski days go, a lift-served day should include at least 8K verts. According to me, of course. Lesser days can be combined into a full day. For non-lift served, that's sort of a sensitive issue for some, as I discovered in mentioning this to Mr. Guido. Some give mega bonus points for the manly aspects of slogging up the hill. But does a hike up Gondolier and a ski down the same, really count for a ski day? Would it be more proper to count this as equivalent to running 5 miles, as opposed to a skiing experience? The only real metric for b/c has to be total vertical feet. As far as comparing b/c to lift-served, I don't think you can. They would be two separate categories. All of the above, of course, is IMHO. Keep those tallies coming! Mig __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SkiVt-L is brought to you by the University of Vermont. To unsubscribe, visit http://list.uvm.edu/archives/skivt-l.html