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Alta Sierra Ski Resort

389 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 6,666 ft to a summit of 7,055 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into 2 five-hundred-foot bands.

389
ft vertical
6,666
ft base
7,055
ft summit
2
uphill lifts
11
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
6,500–7,00010 ac · 17.8° · SE675 mm
7,000–7,5001 ac · 16.2° · SE675 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
2
All lifts
3
Lift length
0.7 km
Steepest band
17.8°
Operator
—
Coordinates
35.7097, -118.5593

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
6,500–7,0001017.8more difficultSE132675
7,000–7,500116.2more difficultSE140675

Slope and aspect are the Horn 3×3 method on a ~13 m DEM. A band's aspect is the direction of the mean unit vector, not the mean of the angles. NDJFM mm is the PRISM 1991–2020 November–March precipitation normal at that height — liquid equivalent, not snow depth.

How this mountain gets scored

the verification station
No SNOTEL within 25 km. SNOTEL is a western network, so this mountain is verified against the NOHRSC snowfall analysis and the nearest COOP and ASOS observations instead — all coarser, and none of them at summit height. That is a real limit on what can be claimed here, and it is stated rather than hidden.

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