How many miles of rail has Tom Wallisch hit in his life?

TheMailManNice! I think you're a bit high with an average of 100 rails per day though.

Okay next... how much airtime has Candide racked up?
Probably about 4-5 years

**This post was edited on Nov 25th 2019 at 12:55:47pm

TheMailManNice! I think you're a bit high with an average of 100 rails per day though.

**This post was edited on Nov 25th 2019 at 12:55:47pm

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LonelyAlright gotta do some maths

LonelyAlright gotta do some maths here

So:

Tom has been doing rails for 20 years. We will say the average length is approximately 25ft. Based on the length of LJ's attempt edit for realski I would say that a successful full rail-slide occurs approximately 85% of the time when skiing urban and 95% of the time when skiing park (These are conservative numbers). So we will assign completion coeffeicents of .85 for street and .95 for park. Now lets consider the outliers. Lets say 3 times a year he is working on something crazy like his world record attempt. This means around 100 tries on something 80ft or more (I'm gonna say 80 ft to make the math easy and not include coefficients). This will need to be accounted for. In a normal week I'm gonna assume 6 days a week on average. Make that a 30 laps a day on average with 6 rail features hit on average. Now lets setup this equation.



So: (20years)*(312days per year)*(30 laps per day)= 187,000 laps over his career
Then: (187,000 laps)*(6 features per laps)= 1,122,000 features hit
Thus: (1,122,000 features hit) * (25 ft feature length)=28,050,000 feet of rails hit
Then: (28,050,000 ft of rails hit) *( .85)* (.95)=22,650,375 ft of rails hit
Also: (100 tries) *(80ft) *(3 times a year)= 24,000 ft of outlier shit
Finally: (28,074,000 ft)/(5,260ft per mile)=5,337 miles of rails slid over 20 years.


Disclaimer: I am really bad at math
Thank you to: @eheath for helping me decide on toms numbers
Expect edits to math when I am much more sober

Ps: High numbers but this is tom walnuts we're talking about and the heath agreed
PSs: Days skied per year is probably too high
**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:05:45am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:07:06am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:09:48am

TheMailMan312 days per year on average over 20 years? you're mad.

Recovery days, travelling days, holidays, shoulder seasons, (between northern and southern winters)....Plus you gotta take his acl recovery into account where he probably skied 10 days in that year.

It's probably more like 200 days, maybe not even that much. Plus, he doesn't ski park solely.

Your math is fine, but your reasoning is bonkers

LonelyAlright gotta do some maths here

So:

Tom has been doing rails for 20 years. We will say the average length is approximately 25ft. Based on the length of LJ's attempt edit for realski I would say that a successful full rail-slide occurs approximately 85% of the time when skiing urban and 95% of the time when skiing park (These are conservative numbers). So we will assign completion coeffeicents of .85 for street and .95 for park. Now lets consider the outliers. Lets say 3 times a year he is working on something crazy like his world record attempt. This means around 100 tries on something 80ft or more (I'm gonna say 80 ft to make the math easy and not include coefficients). This will need to be accounted for. In a normal week I'm gonna assume 6 days a week on average. Make that a 30 laps a day on average with 6 rail features hit on average. Now lets setup this equation.



So: (20years)*(312days per year)*(30 laps per day)= 187,000 laps over his career
Then: (187,000 laps)*(6 features per laps)= 1,122,000 features hit
Thus: (1,122,000 features hit) * (25 ft feature length)=28,050,000 feet of rails hit
Then: (28,050,000 ft of rails hit) *( .85)* (.95)=22,650,375 ft of rails hit
Also: (100 tries) *(80ft) *(3 times a year)= 24,000 ft of outlier shit
Finally: (28,074,000 ft)/(5,260ft per mile)=5,337 miles of rails slid over 20 years.


Disclaimer: I am really bad at math
Thank you to: @eheath for helping me decide on toms numbers
Expect edits to math when I am much more sober

Ps: High numbers but this is tom walnuts we're talking about and the heath agreed
PSs: Days skied per year is probably too high
**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:05:45am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:07:06am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:09:48am

LonelyAlright gotta do some maths here

So:

Tom has been doing rails for 20 years. We will say the average length is approximately 25ft. Based on the length of LJ's attempt edit for realski I would say that a successful full rail-slide occurs approximately 85% of the time when skiing urban and 95% of the time when skiing park (These are conservative numbers). So we will assign completion coeffeicents of .85 for street and .95 for park. Now lets consider the outliers. Lets say 3 times a year he is working on something crazy like his world record attempt. This means around 100 tries on something 80ft or more (I'm gonna say 80 ft to make the math easy and not include coefficients). This will need to be accounted for. In a normal week I'm gonna assume 6 days a week on average. Make that a 30 laps a day on average with 6 rail features hit on average. Now lets setup this equation.



So: (20years)*(312days per year)*(30 laps per day)= 187,000 laps over his career
Then: (187,000 laps)*(6 features per laps)= 1,122,000 features hit
Thus: (1,122,000 features hit) * (25 ft feature length)=28,050,000 feet of rails hit
Then: (28,050,000 ft of rails hit) *( .85)* (.95)=22,650,375 ft of rails hit
Also: (100 tries) *(80ft) *(3 times a year)= 24,000 ft of outlier shit
Finally: (28,074,000 ft)/(5,260ft per mile)=5,337 miles of rails slid over 20 years.


Disclaimer: I am really bad at math
Thank you to: @eheath for helping me decide on toms numbers
Expect edits to math when I am much more sober

Ps: High numbers but this is tom walnuts we're talking about and the heath agreed
PSs: Days skied per year is probably too high
**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:05:45am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:07:06am

**This post was edited on Nov 26th 2019 at 1:09:48am

john18061806Your answer seems too high sir, I’m going to have to ask you to convince me further

Dr.ZorkoMaybe @TWallisch should review the math

john18061806Take a wild guess, there's no official answer.

+Karma if you can back up your answer by mathing it out on paper and posting a pic of your solution.

Let's guess Tom started hitting rails around 2000, which means roughly 20 years of rails. If he skis an average of 90 days a winter over those 20 years. Hits an an average rail of length (30ft for Tom) 100 times a day.

Thats 100 rail hits * 30ft * (1mile/5280ft) * 90 days * 20 years. Which gives us 1022.7 miles of rail that Tom has hit in his lifetime.

That's my ballpark guess.

LonelyGonna fix my numbers here. Definitely overlooked some stuff last night as other members pointed out.

Lets say 130 days a season instead, with one injury every 5 years preventing Tom from skiing for 40 days ( just pulling that number out of nowhere really)

That would make the total miles skied in his career:

(20 Years)* (130 Days Per Year)= 2,600 days skied total
(4 injuries over career)* (40 day average recovery)= 160 days out for injuries (at least)
(2,600 Total) - (160 days out)= 2,440 days skied
(2,440 days skied) *(30 laps)* (6 features)=403,200 features hit
(25ft feature length)* (403,200 Features)= 10,080,000 ft hit
(10,080,000 ft hit) * (.85) *(.95)=8,139,600 ft successful
(8,139,600 ft successful)/ (5260 ft/mile)=1,547 miles slid

Add in his crazier long stuff of 4.5 miles and our final answer is.......

Approximately 1,551 Miles of rail slid in Toms career- a much more realistic answer