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Marathon: 2:21:12 (Chicago); 2:20:41 (CIM)
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Sat, Dec 20, 2014

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Sundance Resort was cool enough to allow uphill skiing on the back side of their mountain this morning, before they open it up to the public and get the lifts running tomorrow. This event wasn't competitive, but Surface Skis (who sponsored the event) tossed out the challenge of climbing 10,000 vertical feet, so that's what a lot of folks were doing. Ski patrol let the SkiMo crowd use the Arrowhead / Bearclaw area, which is a 1280' climb - so skinning 8 laps got you 10,000 feet plus a little bonus. I knocked it out in 5 hours before heading down to the Owl Bar. This was a really good time and I hope more ski areas consider allowing this kind of event occasionally, especially when the snowpack is thin. I think close to 100 people showed up... not too shabby.

Up, down, and transition splits...

Comments

From Amiee on Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 19:07:22 from 166.137.246.46

I give you 4 weeks until onesie!

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 19:39:56 from 24.10.247.181

The Owl Bar is awesome! It's not for the working class though if you know what I mean.

From Jason D on Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:57:05 from 68.80.27.222

A slight positive split there, but I guess uphill skiing for 5 hours does that.

From Jake K on Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:57:37 from 98.202.128.218

Next time I'm going to eat something during the first 4 hours and prevent the late bonk! I nearly bit Andrea's fingers off when she offered me a chunk of Tram Bar before my last lap.

No more new gear Amiee! Until we get closer to Powderkeg... :-)

Rob - the history of that place is awesome. Built in Thermopolis WY and moved down here. You're not going to learn something cool like that in a stupid STEM class, that's for sure!

From SlowJoe on Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 14:21:34 from 104.51.208.13

I think I get it now - must have to change skis between up and down. I like the fancy timing system.

From Jake K on Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 14:43:04 from 199.190.170.22

Eventually I need to do a blog post with a short video on how alpine touring skis actually work. I forget people outside of mountain states have no idea what I'm talking about.

But you have the gist of it...

-ascend the the slope with "skins" on the bottom of your skis so you can get traction (they are made of mohair, but they used to be made of actual animal skin in the early days of skiing).

-rip off the skins and buckle down your boots (transition #1)

-ski down the mountain

-remove skis, loosen boots, re-apply the skins to the bottom of the skis, and get ready to climb back up (transition #2)

Repeat all winter.

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