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Loveland Basin Ski Area

1,771 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 10,888 ft to a summit of 12,659 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into 5 five-hundred-foot bands.

1,771
ft vertical
10,888
ft base
12,659
ft summit
7
uphill lifts
1,434
footprint acres

The column

5 bands · base to summit
10,500–11,000251 ac · 13.3° · SSE343 mm
11,000–11,500476 ac · 20.0° · SE375 mm
11,500–12,000504 ac · 18.6° · ESE391 mm
12,000–12,500202 ac · 15.1° · E408 mm
12,500–13,0002 ac · 29.1° · ESE404 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
5
All lifts
7
Lift length
7.1 km
Steepest band
29.1°
Operator
—
Coordinates
39.6771, -105.9068

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
10,500–11,00025113.3easierSSE156343
11,000–11,50047620.0more difficultSE135375
11,500–12,00050418.6more difficultESE104391
12,000–12,50020215.1more difficultE79408
12,500–13,000229.1most difficultESE114404

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
Loveland Basin SNOTEL (602:CO:SNTL) is 0.5 km away at 11,410 ft — 1,249 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

Arapahoe Basin 6 km Keystone 11 km Winter Park Resort 25 km Breckenridge 27 km Copper Mountain 31 km Echo Mountain 33 km

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