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Maine · lift-served terrain

Black Mountain of Maine

1,046 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 977 ft to a summit of 2,023 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.

1,046
ft vertical
977
ft base
2,023
ft summit
3
uphill lifts
59
footprint acres

The column

4 bands · base to summit
500–1,0002 ac · 5.9° · ENE455 mm
1,000–1,50042 ac · 16.2° · E455 mm
1,500–2,00015 ac · 18.9° · ENE461 mm
2,000–2,5000 ac · 14.0° · NE468 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
4
All lifts
3
Lift length
2.1 km
Steepest band
18.9°
Operator
—
Coordinates
44.5781, -70.6186

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
500–1,00025.9easierENE76455
1,000–1,5004216.2more difficultE96455
1,500–2,0001518.9more difficultENE77461
2,000–2,500014.0easierNE42468

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 Abram 24 km Sunday River 24 km Titcomb Mountain 36 km Saddleback Mountain 41 km Lost Valley Ski Area 56 km Sugarloaf 58 km

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