Vertical Feet Tracker Calculator

This calculator tallies your ski season by multiplying three numbers you already track — runs per day, vertical feet per run, and days skied — into a season-long vertical feet total, then converts that single figure into a handful of more tangible benchmarks. The metric conversion is a straight multiplication by 0.3048 feet-to-meters, and the mileage figure just divides by 5,280 feet per mile, both exact unit conversions with nothing skiing-specific about them. The calorie estimate is the one figure built on an assumption: it multiplies total vertical feet by your body weight and a fixed per-foot-per-pound constant (0.00027), calibrated so a 180-pound skier logging a 30,000-foot day burns roughly 1,460 calories — a plausible full-day total, but a rough proxy rather than a measured value, since it doesn't account for lift time, trail pitch, snow conditions, or skiing intensity, all of which change real energy expenditure.

The Everest-ascents figure is purely for fun: it divides your total vertical feet by 29,032, the mountain's height, so logging that many ascents means you've descended the equivalent elevation, not that you've actually climbed anything. Because the inputs are per-day averages rather than day-by-day logs, the accuracy of every output depends on how representative your typical run count and vertical estimate really are — a few outlier powder days or a lift closure can shift the true season total noticeably from what a flat average predicts.