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Powder Ridge Ski Area

421 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 385 ft to a summit of 806 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.

421
ft vertical
385
ft base
806
ft summit
4
uphill lifts
34
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
0–50011 ac · 9.0° · E533 mm
500–1,00022 ac · 10.2° · E533 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
2
All lifts
8
Lift length
2.8 km
Steepest band
10.2°
Operator
—
Coordinates
41.5014, -72.7406

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
0–500119.0easierE91533
500–1,0002210.2easierE92533

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.

Nearby

Mount Southington Ski Area 18 km Woodbury Ski Area 44 km Ski Sundown 46 km Mohawk Mountain Ski Area 60 km Ski Butternut 89 km Catamount Mountain Resort 96 km

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