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Skiing measures up on smartphone app

AlpineReplay is on the fast track to success

By T.D. Thornton

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 23, 2012

GPS-enabled devices that measure personal skiing and snowboarding metrics have been evolving for several seasons. The latest candidate for “next big thing’’ in this category is AlpineReplay, a free smart phone application whose goal is to track your day (or even season) on the slopes in terms of speed, distance, vertical drop, air time, and calories burned.

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