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  3. From: tnickles@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Tim Nickles)
  4. Subject: Re: Steepness 
  5. Message-ID: <tnickles.722213335@beagle>
  6. Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: beagle.colorado.edu
  8. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  9. References: <1992Nov18.195849.10259@netcom.com>
  10. Distribution: usa
  11. Date: 19 Nov 92 22:48:55 GMT
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  14. brunette@netcom.com (Hal Brunette) writes:
  15.  
  16. >Here's an abridged version of a table appearing in the December 1992 Snow
  17. >Country magazine which I found very interesting.  
  18.  
  19. >Name of Run       Where                   Percent Grade          Degree Slope
  20.  
  21. >The Headwall      Tuckerman Ravine, NH        116%                49   degrees
  22. >Great Scott       Snowbird, UT                 98%                44.5 degrees
  23. >Saudan Couloir    Blackcomb, BC                87.5%              41   degrees
  24. >Corbett's Couloir Jackson Hole, WY             80%                38.6 degrees
  25. >(Typical Household Staircase)  --------------  63%  ------------  32.3 degrees
  26. >Palivacinni       Arapahoe Basin, CO           58%                30   degrees
  27. >Outer Limits      Killington, VT               42.6%              23   degrees
  28. >Exhibition        Squaw Valley, CA             41%                22   degrees
  29. >White Heat        Sunday River, ME             38.5%              21   degrees
  30. >Prima             Vail, CO                     37.5%              20.5 degrees
  31. >Spiral Staircase  Telluride, CO                35.8%              20   degrees
  32. >Goat              Stowe, VT                    35.3               19.5 degrees
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  35. thanks Hal!  One run we must not forget to mention is Exhilaration
  36. at Whistler, B.C.   My personal experience is that this run torn me
  37. a bigger new asshole than Saudan's Couloir at Blackcomb (leading me
  38. to belive it's steeper still).  
  39.  
  40. anybody else care to speculate?
  41.  
  42. tim
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