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Ski speedometer

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skiingisfun69
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can anyone recommend any sort of speedometer device or speedometer watch for skiing?

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Mar 29 2009 7:46PM
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WhiteBurd
Posts: 1127 - Karma: 98
a gps
Mar 29 2009 7:46PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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gps for sure.
Mar 29 2009 7:57PM
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steezyskier7
Posts: 139 - Karma: 13
if you have an iphone there is an app that tells you your max speed and how many vertical feet you went
Mar 29 2009 8:18PM
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Dr_Feelgood
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i remember i used to have a gps watch that told you speed. it was badass. i got up to 45mph down the face of west when it was insanely crowded. i got thrown off the mountain haha
Mar 29 2009 8:46PM
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KravtZ
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i know for a fact iv been to atleast 60 mph cuase that is what the snowboarders at the u.s. open were goin into the quarter pipe and iv def been that fast
Mar 29 2009 9:58PM
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.Brink.
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Mar 29 2009 11:07PM
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BigM1218
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yea i have a garmin and it tells my speed while im driving, i never took it skiing but i guess if you set it to walking mode it would work
Mar 29 2009 11:08PM
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jwaveson
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Yeah I use a Garmin etrex Vista gps, especially when I race. The fastest I've clocked myself at was 82.6 mph. Most scared I've ever been on skiis and the most blood pumping. Couldn't see shit, eyes watered up, everything was shaking for visability, lost 2 lift tickets off my Jacket. Every year I try to go faster, I'd love to hit 90 but I haven't gotten there yet.
Mar 29 2009 11:47PM
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BigM1218
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dude, my car can barely do 90. thats fuckin insane
Mar 29 2009 11:51PM
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Jballz
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i got ya beat, got clocked at 82 in a speed trap race, it was fucking crazy, felt like floating
Mar 30 2009 12:00AM
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jwaveson
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just prayin you don't catch an edge or something, that you stay on your skis...... or your season could be over. yeah that's what the 82.6 mph felt like.
Mar 30 2009 12:53AM
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Shpadoinkle
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DUDE! That's fuckin' gnarly!
Mar 30 2009 1:19AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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!!!
Mar 30 2009 1:31AM
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Jesus-FlwrSubaru
Posts: 1077 - Karma: 53

Milk Run in Telluride will let you achive your goal, its my favorite run going back down to town at the end of the day. I was going so fast that my jacket was making me hover over the ground for a few seconds, my helmet has flown off my head and get some insane tunnel vision.

Mar 30 2009 1:32AM
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pmw
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i used to have a hot hweels one...
Mar 30 2009 4:00PM
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jwaveson
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I have felt the hover, very weird feeling. 1st time it happened I was at Mt. Snow, goin down Mind Shaft on Carinthia (before it became a terrain park), hit about 75mph kinda freaked out about the whole hover thing and went down hard. Yard sale down a 3rd of the slope, surprised I even got up, I was lucky. I did however break one of my skis.
Mar 30 2009 11:07PM
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BlueSteele
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Definitely did 71 mph down Go Devil at Keystone.  Most awesome shit ever.  I went for a max speed run down Spruce at Breck but I was way too terrified to go faster than the 62 mph Mr. Chris Krance recorded us at.
Mar 30 2009 11:12PM
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brenker
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mine shaft is still bombable....you gotta hit the steep kicker right when the trail drops but the landing is soooooo long and fast
Mar 31 2009 12:31AM
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jwaveson
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I like that new section, I can actually make it all the way up and over the bottom to the connecting trails without having to pole or skate.
Mar 31 2009 12:33AM
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