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  1. Newsgroups: rec.skiing
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!utcsri!skule.ecf!torn!nott!cunews!revcan!micor!toh
  3. From: toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Marc Sira)
  4. Subject: Re: Steepness 
  5. Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
  6. Distribution: usa
  7. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:27:02 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.032702.1665@micor.ocunix.on.ca>
  9. References: <1992Nov18.195849.10259@netcom.com>
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  12. In article <1992Nov18.195849.10259@netcom.com> brunette@netcom.com (Hal Brunette) writes:
  13. >Here's an [ even more] abridged version of a table appearing in the December 1992 Snow
  14. >Country magazine which I found very interesting.  
  15. >
  16. >Name of Run       Where                   Percent Grade          Degree Slope
  17. >
  18. >The Headwall      Tuckerman Ravine, NH        116%                49   degrees
  19. >Great Scott       Snowbird, UT                 98%                44.5 degrees
  20. >Saudan Couloir    Blackcomb, BC                87.5%              41   degrees
  21. >Corbett's Couloir Jackson Hole, WY             80%                38.6 degrees
  22. >(Typical Household Staircase)  --------------  63%  ------------  32.3 degrees
  23.  
  24. Interesting...I've only skied the Saudan, of that list, but I'd never thought of
  25. it in terms of a staircase. Puts it into perspective.
  26. Their is actually a "Staircase" single-black at Blackcomb, but I'm not sure if
  27. it's precisely 32.3 degrees average B-).
  28.  
  29.  
  30. -- 
  31. Marc Sira               |
  32. toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca  |  "Your god drinks...P-P-Peach nectar!"
  33.                         '
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