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Old April 5th 10, 03:09 PM posted to rec.skiing.snowboard
Bob F
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Default how fast do you go?

Christian G. Becker wrote:
Am 05.03.2010 23:49, schrieb Mike M. Miskulin:
hey now - any one ever had their speed reliably measured?


I have a GPS-logger with display and speed-measuring. Got 75 km/h at
two points in the recent winter:
* at Les Crosets in Portes Du Soleil (Swiss/France): under the Les
Mossettes - Lift at the Abricotine - slope. You have to speed up there
to make it to the next lift. Darn blue slopes with hills
* at Åre (Sweden): the Paradisbacken - slope in Duved. Hard and cold
snow.

I only take the thing out at places where I can keep an eye on the
display, it is rather meant to log the places I've taken photos of on
the slopes. Maybe I'll look into the gathered data, if I can calculate
speeds from it.


My understanding is that short term speed measurments are not very accurate on
GPS's.


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