The Longest Run: Ski Like an Engineer

Here in the United States, ski season will come to a close in a few weeks. There's time left to squeeze in one last run, and if you ask Contributing Blogger Cathy Healy, she'll recommend it be a long one.
Engineers don't approach the mountains like we reporters, which means you can count on an engineer to give you memorable stories. With huge dumps of snow in the United States this year, I asked an engineer pal in Buenos Aires if he planned to come skiing up here. Last August, he had emailed me: "Just returned from Las Le�as in Argentina, 93 miles of skiing accomplished, with zero access to Internet."

C'mon. How could he know that? Pedometers can't translate glides into steps. Yet I discovered his method was quite primitive:

? Get a large trail map.
? Steal a ruler from your son.
? Get pen and paper to note calculated distances.
? Pull out your record pad and carefully record number of trails and number of runs.
? Figure out the length of the trails using the simple rule of three, based on the known length of the three successive runs at Las Le�as, which are advertised as the longest runs in South America at 14.9 miles.

Meanwhile, I'm armchair skiing and wondering how to log 100 miles in a week. Consider one of these "ski equations" after the jump:

Source: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2011/04/the-longest-run-ski-like-an-en.html

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