44,561' this season

Ok so I'm late posting it up but after a 5k day out I've now crossed over 40k for the year. I can't really describe what it feels like knowing that I've only got 5439' left to go until I hit my goal of 50,000 feet. Its quite an amazing feeling given that I thought 50k was a pretty high bar when I set it back in November. I'm really feeling strong and with the warmer temps and longer days that come in the spring I feel like theres a chance that 75k is out there. Its going to take some work, but I think its possible.


to date:
21 days
44561' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed
12/13 351' climbed
12/14 3271' climbed
12/15 1690' climbed
12/16 1070' climbed
12/17 3186' climbed
12/23 768' climbed
12/30 1654' climbed
12/31 3264' climbed
1/18 2100' climbed
1/21 2713' climbed
1/27 425' climbed
2/10 1806' climbed
2/16 955' climbed
2/22 3576' climbed
2/23 2631' climbed
2/27 5006' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #13

Just shy of 40k for the year!!! Its somewhat of a bummer coming home and adding it up to fall just short seeing as I thought I was over today. Oh well

to date:
20 days
39555' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed
12/13 351' climbed
12/14 3271' climbed
12/15 1690' climbed
12/16 1070' climbed
12/17 3186' climbed
12/23 768' climbed
12/30 1654' climbed
12/31 3264' climbed
1/18 2100' climbed
1/21 2713' climbed
1/27 425' climbed
2/10 1806' climbed
2/16 955' climbed
2/22 3576' climbed
2/23 2631' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #12

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
18 days
33348' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed
12/13 351' climbed
12/14 3271' climbed
12/15 1690' climbed
12/16 1070' climbed
12/17 3186' climbed
12/23 768' climbed
12/30 1654' climbed
12/31 3264' climbed
1/18 2100' climbed
1/21 2713' climbed
1/27 425' climbed
2/10 1806' climbed
2/16 955' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #11

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
16 days
30587' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed
12/13 351' climbed
12/14 3271' climbed
12/15 1690' climbed
12/16 1070' climbed
12/17 3186' climbed
12/23 768' climbed
12/30 1654' climbed
12/31 3264' climbed
1/18 2100' climbed
1/21 2713' climbed
1/27 425' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #10

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
13 days
25349' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed
12/13 351' climbed
12/14 3271' climbed
12/15 1690' climbed
12/16 1070' climbed
12/17 3186' climbed
12/23 768' climbed
12/30 1654' climbed
12/31 3264" climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #9 (over 20,000' for the season!)

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
11 days
20431' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed
12/13 351' climbed
12/14 3271' climbed
12/15 1690' climbed
12/16 1070' climbed
12/17 3186' climbed
12/23 768' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #8

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
10 days
19663' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed
12/13 351' climbed
12/14 3271' climbed
12/15 1690' climbed
12/16 1070' climbed
12/17 3186' climbed


phew, almost to 20k!!!!!!

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #6

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
7 days
10446' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed
12/13 351' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #5

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
6 days
10095' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed
12/8 1680' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #4

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
5 days
8415' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed
12/3 1624' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #3

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
4 days
6791' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed
11/16 377' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #2

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
3 days
6414' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed
11/11 1498' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge update #1

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo

to date:
2 days
4879' climbed


10/31 1575' climbed
11/3 3304' climbed

The 2007-2008 vertical challenge

thanks to Kevin Broderick for the photo


This year to give me some extra motivation on those long uphill sections I've created the vertical challenge. Basically I'm going to see how many vertical feet of climbing I can rack up in a single season. Right now I think 50,000 feet is well within reason and I'd love to put the season ending total somewhere in the neighborhood of 75,000.

The rules:
1. Only vert climbed with the intention of skiing counts
2. Only uphill vertical counts
3. All vertical climbed will count, even if the snowline is above the start of the climb.
4. Due to the challenge of keeping as accurate a total as possible, for a climb to count as vertical, it must be achieved without the use of ski lifts: ie no taking a lift then hiking. If the lifts are on windhold or shut down then any vertical gained by hiking is countable.
5. Have fun, its not like there's a prize here except lots of suffering :-)