301 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 7,866 ft to a summit of
8,167 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.
301
ft vertical
7,866
ft base
8,167
ft summit
1
uphill lifts
259
footprint acres
The column
2 bands · base to summit
7,500–8,000150 ac · 6.9° · SW113 mm
8,000–8,500108 ac · 15.5° · SW120 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
2
All lifts
1
Lift length
0.3 km
Steepest band
15.5°
Operator
—
Coordinates
38.5858, -106.8961
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
7,500–8,000
150
6.9
easier
SW
232
113
8,000–8,500
108
15.5
more difficult
SW
224
120
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.