600 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 10,061 ft to a summit of
10,661 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.
600
ft vertical
10,061
ft base
10,661
ft summit
1
uphill lifts
312
footprint acres
The column
4 bands · base to summit
9,500–10,00042 ac · 21.0° · S179 mm
10,000–10,500128 ac · 18.4° · SSE179 mm
10,500–11,000106 ac · 21.8° · SSE189 mm
11,000–11,50036 ac · 19.6° · S189 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
4
All lifts
2
Lift length
0.7 km
Steepest band
21.8°
Operator
—
Coordinates
39.6861, -105.5207
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
9,500–10,000
42
21.0
more difficult
S
179
179
10,000–10,500
128
18.4
more difficult
SSE
154
179
10,500–11,000
106
21.8
more difficult
SSE
168
189
11,000–11,500
36
19.6
more difficult
S
186
189
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
Echo Lake SNOTEL (936:CO:SNTL) is
7.1 km away at 10,660 ft —
1 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.