How fast skis

DaveC , my s are straightlining or very long radius carved turns. The 60ish would be more GS to super-G type turning down red runs.

Ski the Net with snowHeads. Mach 1. No I always bottle it and starting scrubbing speed, no idea how fast but it feels too fast for me. I keep thinking that if I stack it it's going to hurt, a lot! I think I'm fairly slow, maybe 20mph? Never thought about measuring it. I know I can't keep up with most of my ski buddies, that's slow enough for me! And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.

Colin B wrote: Mach 1. Really let it rip once and we all had a big car crash type scenario. So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much.

No idea, been clocked at kph once, but I've never been that fast again since. You know it makes sense. Fast enough for me, nowhere near as fast as some. Hurting yourself quite badly even in another sport as a result of crashing at speed tends to have a moderating effect.

Plus its rare that grooming is so perfect that you can't potentially hit some cat crap or a ridge between tracks. Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:. Black runs most people are only doing the same speed as red runs or slower on the steeper sections. For me I know that at around 70mph my back pack makes hell of a noise and that my goggle strap starts to vibrate on my helmet.

For me its only when testing skis that I ever get up to flat out these days, its just to dam quick for most pistes and as others have said its scary!

Indeed IME jacket or strap flap will be a pretty strong indicator that speeds are getting high enough much below 70mph. Plus if your skiing somewhere with a pass on your zipper getting smacked in the jaw causes rapid slowdown. I don't know. The GPS doesn't seem to work in the bar Just under kph through the Wengen speed gun once but normally a lot less. Quote: I've done 58mph on a mountainbike going down the big hill into Eastbourne wow - my legs nearly fell off when I did 30mph on my mountain bike.

As for skiing the max I've hit is That was schussing straight down a blue. When it comes to Lindsey Vonn's best event at these Winter Olympics, there's one obvious question: Just how fast are those athletes actually moving? The answers vary, but the general consensus seems to be that Olympic skiers tend to fall in the 80 miles-per-hour range, with some exceeding even 95 miles per hour on the fastest sections of the course.

Recreational downhill skiers often average a speed somewhere between miles per hour, as National Public Radio documented around the time of the Turin Winter Games, and sometimes Olympic-winning speeds fall in that category. Otherwise, though, most publications, including Trails. Not exactly a slacker in the credentials department. Of course, one possible reason apps may register a higher than normal speed is that skiers are actually going faster.

To be continued another time. The research of Shealy, Scher et al. I spoke with Jimbo Morgan and C. Mueller, who, along with medalist Jeff Hamilton, formed the US speed skiing contingent at the Albertville Olympics in Morgan scanned his memory to find a reference that would link the recreational skier environment to high-speed skiing.

Rose to train the year before the Olympics. They chose Slide because of its consistent pitch and absence of other skiers. They used their speed skis, but dispensed with the usual suits, helmets and farings. The average skier carrying that much speed to the bottom would cartwheel past the lift, if they made it that far. Mueller, who was the first skier to break mph, estimates that 60mph is attainable without a speed suit as along as all other conditions are ideal, but that, in general, anyone in regular ski clothes has no chance to break 60mph.

Both Shealy and the professional speed skiers reference 40mph as roughly when wind resistance starts to make a real racket. The rare skier who is rocketing along over 40mph can be heard coming ahead of his arrival. So maybe some GPS-based apps are predisposed to overestimate skier speed So what?

The harm is where inflated expectations often lead when male human beings are involved. Speed takes experience, the right equipment and specialized training to manage. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. How fast do skiers go?

Thread starter ski diva Start date Aug 2, I've never been clocked, so I don't know how fast I ski. Nonetheless, I found the following very interesting. From about. Obviously, there's a huge discrepancy between the recreational skier and Olympian ski racers.

The average skier you see cruising down the mountain is probably going anywhere between 10 to 20 miles per hour. Downhill racers clock out at miles per hour, and Olympians tend to ski between miles per hour, depending on the conditions, their equipment, and their body composition.

Speed skiers, who dress in aerodynamic apparel and ski straight down the mountain sans turning, go as fast as miles per hour. The current world record for the fasted speed skier for men is held by Simone Origone, an Italian skier who reached The fastest female speed skier in the world is Sanna Tidstrand, a Swedish skier who hit As for cross country skiers, professional racers average 15 miles per hour for continuous distances up 35 miles.

Most top ski racers hit about miles per hour on the flats, and miles per hour on the downhills. Recreational cross country skiers tend to clock out at around miles per hour. Want to track your own speed on the slopes?

Click to expand MissySki Angel Diva. I have an app that does your speed, distance, vertical feet etc. It was really fun to have all of your stats recorded along with which trails you skied and how many times each etc. DH and I like to compare over dinner after skiing and always got a big kick out of it.