[idea] skiing days competition?

[rip]

I was thinking the other day about how I want to get in as many days as possible this year and thought that maybe a good way to stay motivated when it is -20 and hasnt snowed for 2 weeks would be a little friendly competition between minions/maggots might do the trick?

Anyone interested in a total skiing days competition? Maybe we could break it down by region, or just compete as a percentage of days you've gone skiing to the days your local hill has been open to give people with shorter seasons a chance.

no idea what the prizes would be, a 6er of some good brew? a sticker from the resort of losers? maybe some TGR schwag

what say ye?

[truth]

Screw that...I say we have a lift ticket competition...winner is the JONG that can collect the most wicket/ticket combos on a single zipper.

[Pinner]

Will 100 consecutive backcountry days count the same as 100 days teaching Kids Kamp?

[rip]

i like it, but you should get double points if you put them on your main zipper so they are smacking you in the face all the way down the hill.

[truth]

Pinner...Only if you have a wicket/ticket combo on your zipper to prove it.

[Pinner]

I think an appropriate prize for most backcountry days would be a lift ticket.

Prize for most lift-served days should be a swift kick in the nuts.

[rip]

that settles it, screw getting a pass this year, I'll be hitting up some of michigan's fabled BC hits!

[Samwich]

Why is it hard to stay motivated to ski? Just get out there and enjoy it, mang!!!

[alto]

Because they are here too.

edit - I reread the thread and i cna't figure out what i meant with my original post

[rip]

Originally posted by Samwich
Why is it hard to stay motivated to ski? Just get out there and enjoy it, mang!!!

not motivation to ski, just a little something extra to go every day, even when conditions lick.

No one interested in a little friendly informal competition? oh well, just throwin the idea out there.

[joshbu]

They still grooming over any/all fresh snow in MI, ripley?

SkiingMag used to have a little contest type site where you could input your vert each day, and it would keep track and rank you agains other people. Don't know if they still have it.

[Woodsy]

I skied 13 years with no injuries,
the year I started counting my days ( marking them on a calender as opposed to ye olde "seems like about __") I was hospitalized & almost died 2x.
since then, 97 I stopped counting.

Seems like you are inviting bad ju ju.
but then i am [SWIAMG]very supersticious...[/SWIAMG]

plus like Pinner aluded to, cant compare ski days ( one run on the toothbrush @ Milton Keynes compared to a bell to bell blower fest @ Jackson)

[rip]

Originally posted by joshbu
They still grooming over any/all fresh snow in MI, ripley?

I would say Mt Ripley grooms a little more than half to 3/4 of their runs, but if there is fresh they only groom maybe 1 run sometimes none. Bohemia doesn's groom anything, except for 1 catch all run that loops around the backside, and sometimes their only "intermediate" run.

Downstate though, you are lucky to get a few runs in before it is all groomed over and converted to an inch of extra base depth for the resort.

[sluffhunter]

"It's not about how many days you get in a season, it's about how many seasons you get in your days."