Monday, December 27, 2010:
Our third day in Breckenridge was our second day on the slopes. We now had our ski legs, and so we decided to head to Peak 10 and take on some of the black diamond slopes. They weren't bad at all. In fact, they were a nice challenge, but we managed them quite well.
This was a colder day than the previous day -- in part because the sun did not shine much this day. But we still got in a very full day of skiing. We also had fun this day taking turns taking pictures of ourselves skiing down the mountain.
Chad provided us with an interesting way to track how much skiing we were doing. He has a season's pass to Vail and the surrounding ski resorts and there is a computer chip buried in his ski pass which is tracked as he travels across the slopes. This chip works much like the "easy passes" on state toll roads. There is a monitoring device at each ski lift that electronically senses and records Chad's ski pass every time he boards a lift. At the end of each day, Chad was able to log onto one of the resort sites and get a report on how many vertical feet he traveled that day based on the lifts he rode. Based on these reports, we had some very concrete proof of the considerable distances we were covering each day.
On Sunday, we covered 17,625 vertical feet. On Monday, we exceeded that figure by almost 2,000 - covering 19,541 vertical feet. On our third day of skiing (Tuesday) - which we spent at Vail - we skied the greatest distance -- 20,695 vertical feet. And on our fourth day -- which was only a half-day for us -- we skied 11,880 vertical feet. All tolled, in our three and a half days, we covered 69,741 vertical feet. That's a lot!
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