Track your ski day with the Ski Tracks iPhone app

I went skiing at Vail today. It was (as usual) everything I had hoped it would be, and I even got a few knee-deep turns in my all-time favorite powder stash in the world. Here’s video of the snow, as seen from Lionshead at about 2:30pm today (along with some music I was listening to today: David Bazan).

Early in the ski season I was wondering if there were any apps out there that tracked your ski day using the GPS chip in an iPhone. All I had to do was look, and I instantly came across an app called Ski Tracks – which does everything I was hoping for, and even a little more. It’s super easy to use, you just fire it up and it starts tracking your day, including total vertical, max speed (which doesn’t really work right – there’s no way I went 70MPH yesterday), average slope steepness, total distance. You can also take photos in the app throughout your day, and it will create a great mashup of your day.

But the ultimate awesomeness is that the app exports a KMZ file and you can send it to yourself to view in Google Earth!

Here are some screenshots from my trip to Vail today.

The overview page (for some weird reason the date is incorrect, not sure if that was my fault or the app’s fault):

A GPS + Map mashup that shows exactly where you skied, and is broken up to lifts and runs automagically:

There are also awesomely nerdy graphs that show you your altitude and speed, which you can tap on each point to see what your exact altitude and (assumed) speed is:

It breaks down your day by the run and shows you vertical for each in an easy to read format:

Clicking on a run gives you a very detailed analysis of everything you did on that particular run. This happened to be Lodgepole

My only complaints are that it doesn’t seem to track everything perfectly, or at least the main overview page doesn’t reflect the data collected accurately. And it seems to really use up a lot of battery. But it’s still incredible. And only $0.99!