On March 7, 2025, Rob Bernhoff of Woodinville, Washington, clicked into his skis, took a deep breath, and launched into a relentless pursuit of history. Over the next 12 hours, he would carve his way down the slopes with impressive endurance, claiming the unofficial world record for the most vertical feet skied in a single day.
Final stats: 137,252 vertical feet, 109 lifts, all in 12 hours.
Bernhoft, 49, who owns his own landscape and design business came up with the idea for Max Vertical four years ago. “I played hooky from work and went skiing one day thinking I would go for a couple hours and it was such a good day that I basically decided to ski all day until they kicked me out,” Bernhoft said. “At the end of the day I had a lot of vertical and the next week I was riding up chair 1 and wondered how much vertical I could get on chair 1 because it’s a high-speed quad.”
It was then, that on the last day of night skiing each season, Bernhoft would ski for maximum vertical. Thankfully, the marketing team at Alpental got on board with his endeavor. This year the resort made a priority pass sign for him and committed to making it an official Guinness World Record…