A good day graphed
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012The photo below could be a graph of anything – maybe seasonal unit sales data or a cardiogram. It is, however, a graph of a good day on the ski slopes. We recently spent 2 of the last 4 weekends on overnight ski trips, the first at Zell am See and the second to Obertauern. Nearly every weekend we’ve been going to the local ski slopes, and in reality neither of these resorts is that far from where we live. However, there is definitely something different about not having to drive home after a long day on the pistes, and rolling out of bed the next morning onto the mountain. And then there are the outdoor hot tubs for sore muscles. Ahh!
The apres-ski thing deserves it’s own blog for some other time too, but I should wrap up by explaining the graph. Some of the mountains have a tracking system tied to the chip in your lift pass card. Every time you go up a lift or ski down a hill, it is recorded. When you stop at a hut for a break, you can scan your card and it prints the details of where you’ve been. Some of the resorts also have an app for your mobile phone that track your skiing via GPS.
We got a few more runs in after this was printed. It’s very strange to see a fun day quantified this way:
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