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Beaver Creek

4,009 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 7,424 ft to a summit of 11,433 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into 9 five-hundred-foot bands.

4,009
ft vertical
7,424
ft base
11,433
ft summit
18
uphill lifts
6,711
footprint acres

The column

9 bands · base to summit
7,000–7,50032 ac · 9.8° · SSE182 mm
7,500–8,000830 ac · 17.2° · SSE206 mm
8,000–8,5001,428 ac · 16.2° · S248 mm
8,500–9,0001,070 ac · 18.3° · SSE309 mm
9,000–9,5001,290 ac · 19.1° · SSE346 mm
9,500–10,0001,179 ac · 18.8° · SSE346 mm
10,000–10,500576 ac · 19.5° · S343 mm
10,500–11,000198 ac · 19.8° · SSW366 mm
11,000–11,500107 ac · 12.0° · SSW386 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
9
All lifts
24
Lift length
28.9 km
Steepest band
19.8°
Operator
Vail Resorts
Coordinates
39.5979, -106.5271

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
7,000–7,500329.8easierSSE169182
7,500–8,00083017.2more difficultSSE157206
8,000–8,5001,42816.2more difficultS170248
8,500–9,0001,07018.3more difficultSSE168309
9,000–9,5001,29019.1more difficultSSE164346
9,500–10,0001,17918.8more difficultSSE162346
10,000–10,50057619.5more difficultS176343
10,500–11,00019819.8more difficultSSW198366
11,000–11,50010712.0easierSSW192386

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
Beaver Ck Village SNOTEL (1041:CO:SNTL) is 1.4 km away at 8,530 ft — 2,903 ft below this summit. It reports hourly precipitation, snow water equivalent and temperature at a surveyed elevation, which is the only truth at height that does not have to be interpolated first. Forecasts for this mountain will be scored there, and the score published whether or not it flatters.

Nearby

Vail 15 km Copper Mountain 34 km Ski Cooper 34 km Breckenridge 41 km Keystone 50 km Buttermilk 53 km

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