{"id":8968,"date":"2024-11-26T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/?page_id=8968"},"modified":"2024-11-26T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:54:26","slug":"slope-on-a-ski-hill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/course-materials\/math-8\/linear-relations-and-equations\/slope-on-a-ski-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Slope on a Ski Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow Science: How Steep is Steep? (2:12)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snow Science: How Steep is Steep?\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Llg2oBONZ3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riseandalpine.com\/2021\/01\/26\/the-steepest-ski-resort-runs-in-canada\/#1_Saudan_Couloir_Couloir_Extreme_Blackcomb_Mountain_BC\">On Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, the run Couloir Extreme<\/a> (formerly known as Saudan Couloir in honour of the Swiss extreme skier <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylvain_Saudan\">Sylvain Saudan<\/a>) has a top section with a slope of 49 degrees, and an average slope for the whole run of 42 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Kochuta &#8211; Saudan Couloir Blackcomb (start at 0:44, end at 2:05)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Couloir Extreme (Saudan) Blackcomb\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PWEZGqNAo8?start=46&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1986, Audi made an ad in which one of their cars drove up the Pitkavouri ski jump in Kaipola, Finland. The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/20\/classic-ads-audis-ski-jump-sedans\/\">jump had a slope of 37.5 degrees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Audi quattro\u00ae: Original Ski Jump Commercial (1:06)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Audi quattro\u00ae: Original Ski Jump Commercial\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/faiFfBxhT8s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, Audi re-created the commercial on the same ski jump.<\/p>\n<p>Audi Quattro Campaign: &#8220;Ski Jump&#8221; (0:45)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Audi Quattro Campaign: &quot;Ski Jump&quot;\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/25u80sQkkkM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow Science: How Steep is Steep? (2:12) &nbsp; On Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, the run Couloir Extreme (formerly known as Saudan Couloir in honour of the Swiss extreme skier Sylvain Saudan) has a top section with a slope of 49 degrees, and an average slope for the whole run of 42 degrees. Tom Kochuta &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/course-materials\/math-8\/linear-relations-and-equations\/slope-on-a-ski-hill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slope on a Ski Hill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8971,"parent":8879,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8968","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8974,"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8968\/revisions\/8974"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrrenwick.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}