{"id":2441739,"date":"2019-03-14T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/carbondales-van-horn-to-try-and-break-uphilling-record\/"},"modified":"2019-03-14T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T04:48:00","slug":"carbondales-sean-van-horn-to-try-and-break-uphilling-ski-record-at-buttermilk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/carbondales-sean-van-horn-to-try-and-break-uphilling-ski-record-at-buttermilk\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbondale\u2019s Sean Van Horn to try and break uphilling ski record at Buttermilk"},"content":{"rendered":"
The men’s Power of Four 25k trail run podium on Sunday, July 29, 2018. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).<\/strong>
Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sean Van Horn will go for an uphilling record this weekend. But, more importantly, the Carbondale-based endurance athlete hopes he can raise a few dollars for Aspen Strong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to go through 24 hours of monotony and suffering at Tiehack,\u201d Van Horn said. \u201cA lot of the idea is to push myself in a way I haven\u2019t before on skis and to try and do my small part to change the dialogue around mental illness and to raise some money for an organization I think plays a pretty important role in the valley.\u201d<\/p>\n

First, the record part. Van Horn plans to skin up Tiehack at Buttermilk Ski Area for 24 consecutive hours. He\u2019ll attempt to break the North American record for vertical skiing over that time frame, currently held by Montana\u2019s Mike Foote. He set the record a year ago<\/a> in Whitefish, which is around 61,200 feet of climbing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe set that at an altitude about half the altitude of Aspen,\u201d Van Horn said, \u201cwhich physiologically means I need to produce an effort that is on the low 8 percent, on the high end 12 percent better with that lack of oxygen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, breaking the North American record sounds easier than breaking the world record. Spain\u2019s Kilian Jornet, who is unquestioned one of the best mountain endurance athletes on the planet, broke the record only last month<\/a> when he skied 78,274 vertical feet uphill over 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cKilian is in a way an alien, especially when you get to the ultra events,\u201d Van Horn joked. \u201cI don\u2019t think there is anyone that does ski mountaineering that has quite his ultra pedigree. But Mike Foote set a pretty stout North American record; I think 61,200 feet, last year. So that certainly seemed like a goal that was more in reach. It\u2019s going to be a little challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Horn plans to get underway around 11 a.m. Sunday and finish at 11 a.m. Monday. Tiehack has a vert of about 1,650 feet, meaning Van Horn will need to do nearly 40 laps over those 24 hours to give Foote a run for his money.<\/p>\n

Whether he breaks the record or not is less important than the money raised. Van Horn has set up a GoFundMe page<\/a>, with the proceeds going to Aspen Strong, a mental health organization in the Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI struggled a lot when I was younger and was pretty fortunate to be able to have access to resources, but a lot of people aren\u2019t that fortunate,\u201d Van Horn said of his own mental-health struggles. \u201cIt\u2019s been a really positive experience so far. It\u2019s pretty cool to do something that feels a bit bigger than myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of Thursday night, Van Horn had already raised more than $4,000 for Aspen Strong. A link to the GoFundMe page can be found at aspenstrong.org<\/a> or by searching \u201c24 Hours of Vert For Aspen Strong\u201d through GoFundMe\u2019s site.<\/p>\n

acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The men’s Power of Four 25k trail run podium on Sunday, July 29, 2018. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times Sean Van Horn will go for an uphilling record this weekend. But, more importantly, the Carbondale-based endurance athlete hopes he can raise a few dollars for Aspen Strong. \u201cI\u2019m going to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:36:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}