345 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 8,132 ft to a summit of
8,477 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this
mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into
1 five-hundred-foot bands.
345
ft vertical
8,132
ft base
8,477
ft summit
2
uphill lifts
40
footprint acres
The column
1 bands · base to summit
8,000–8,50040 ac · 12.8° · SSW293 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
1
All lifts
2
Lift length
0.5 km
Steepest band
12.8°
Operator
—
Coordinates
39.2075, -106.9188
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
8,000–8,500
40
12.8
easier
SSW
202
293
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
Castle Peak SNOTEL (1326:CO:SNTL) is
24.0 km away at 11,510 ft —
-3,033 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.