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by Conway

Top 25 Ski Lifts by Vertical

Thanks to websites like MountainVertical.com, skiers looking for the best bang-for-their-buck know which mountains provide the best “True-Up Vertical”, or the maximum practical descent possible from any one ski run.

But if you’re a true fanatic looking to rack up as many vertical-feet-per-day as possible, knowing a mountain’s True-Up Vertical isn’t enough, since it can take several sequential chairlifts to return to the summit. A better question is, “How many vertical feet can I ski from a single chairlift?”

Using user-submitted and GPS-verified data from Trace, I found the top chairlifts in North America.

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by Conway

2015 Pocket Year in Review

I read a metric and Imperial tonne of articles in 2015. See them here.

For the second year running, I finished the year in the Top 1% of Pocket readers worldwide. Of course, percentile rankings like these are useless without more data on Pocket’s users, many of whom I suspect downloaded the app but rarely use it. Even still, I’m a verifiable maniac when it comes to reading, fueled by Pocket and Kindle. Here’s the stats Pocket released for my “Year in Review”:

  • 5,599,107: words read
    • 119: books-equivalent
  • 1,332,737: average words read by my Facebook and Twitter connections who use Pocket
  • Most saved topics (Pocket’s categories): Current Events, Health, Travel, Sports, Education

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