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  2. Aerial skiing - Wikipedia

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    Aerial skiing or aerials is a freestyle skiing discipline where athletes ski down a slope to launch themselves off a kicker (a vertically inclined ramp) and perform multiple twists and flips before landing on an inclined landing hill. [1]

  3. Comparison of North American ski resorts - Wikipedia

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    Vertical drop (ft) Skiable acreage ... Spruce Mountain Ski Slope: Jay: Maine: 310 10 300 12 3 ... Big Tupper Ski Area Tupper Lake New York: December 9, ...

  4. Ober Gatlinburg - Wikipedia

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    Ober Mountain Adventure Park & Ski Area, formerly known as Ober Gatlinburg, is a ski area and amusement park located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, that was established in 1962. The area also contains a large mall with indoor amusements, an indoor ice skating rink , snack bars , a restaurant, and stores.

  5. A CEO did business on the ski slope instead of the meeting ...

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    Indeed CEO Chris Hyams told me about a big report they conducted to understand the impact of AI on the labor market. Looking at 50 million-plus jobs, they found 2,800 distinct skills.

  6. SSAWS - Wikipedia

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    With a structural height of 100 meters (translating to a skiable vertical drop of 80 m), a width of 100 m and a length of 500 m, it was the largest indoor ski slope in the world [2] at the time. The complex had three ski courses [ 3 ] —20.1° for skilled skiers, 15° for intermediate, and 10° for beginners — and two ski lifts.

  7. Ski jumping hill - Wikipedia

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    Past the landing slope is the outrun, which is either flat or even uphill, where the skier can slow down. [1] The speed of the skier is normally measured about 10 meters (33 ft) before the end of the takeoff; jumpers can reach speeds of 95 kilometers per hour (59 mph) on large hills and 105 kilometers per hour (65 mph) on ski flying hills. [2]

  8. Harakiri (ski piste) - Wikipedia

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    The Harakiri is a slope in the ski resort of Mayrhofen Ski Zillertal 3000. It is named after the Japanese vulgar term for seppuku, ritual suicide by samurai. With incline of up to 78% (38 degrees), vertical drop of 375 metres and a length of about 1500 metres, it is the steepest groomed slope in Austria. Thus the slope is steeper than the ...

  9. Pas de Chavanette - Wikipedia

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    The rocky passage on Le Pas de Chavanette. The slope has moguls throughout. It starts in a narrow pass on the mountain top with an inclication of 40 degrees. [1] In winters with heavy snowfall, the moguls at the top can grow to enormous dimensions — the size of a small car — because of the heavy turns people take to compensate for the inclination and narrow slope.