1,569 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 7,055 ft to a summit of
8,624 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this
mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into
4 five-hundred-foot bands.
1,569
ft vertical
7,055
ft base
8,624
ft summit
7
uphill lifts
478
footprint acres
The column
4 bands · base to summit
7,000–7,500102 ac · 19.1° · S854 mm
7,500–8,000228 ac · 15.5° · SSW869 mm
8,000–8,500127 ac · 19.9° · S869 mm
8,500–9,00021 ac · 23.8° · SSW893 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
4
All lifts
11
Lift length
6.6 km
Steepest band
23.8°
Operator
China Peak Mountain Resort
Coordinates
37.2252, -119.1577
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
7,000–7,500
102
19.1
more difficult
S
178
854
7,500–8,000
228
15.5
more difficult
SSW
207
869
8,000–8,500
127
19.9
more difficult
S
173
869
8,500–9,000
21
23.8
more difficult
SSW
193
893
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.