898 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 831 ft to a summit of
1,729 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this
mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into
3 five-hundred-foot bands.
898
ft vertical
831
ft base
1,729
ft summit
5
uphill lifts
182
footprint acres
The column
3 bands · base to summit
500–1,00034 ac · 10.4° · SSW461 mm
1,000–1,500131 ac · 12.5° · SSW472 mm
1,500–2,00017 ac · 16.5° · SSW472 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
3
All lifts
10
Lift length
4.0 km
Steepest band
16.5°
Operator
Ski Butternut
Coordinates
42.1798, -73.3194
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
500–1,000
34
10.4
easier
SSW
194
461
1,000–1,500
131
12.5
easier
SSW
193
472
1,500–2,000
17
16.5
more difficult
SSW
196
472
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.