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Iowa · lift-served terrain

Sky Glider West

108 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 795 ft to a summit of 903 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.

108
ft vertical
795
ft base
903
ft summit
3
uphill lifts
161
footprint acres

The column

1 bands · base to summit
500–1,000161 ac · 5.9° · NW183 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
1
All lifts
3
Lift length
1.0 km
Steepest band
5.9°
Operator
—
Coordinates
41.5925, -93.5464

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
500–1,0001615.9easierNW316183

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

Seven Oaks 59 km

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