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Alpine Valley Ski Area

210 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 968 ft to a summit of 1,178 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.

210
ft vertical
968
ft base
1,178
ft summit
8
uphill lifts
44
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
500–1,00011 ac · 6.7° · NNE278 mm
1,000–1,50033 ac · 11.4° · ENE278 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
13
Lift length
2.8 km
Steepest band
11.4°
Operator
—
Coordinates
42.6546, -83.5244

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
500–1,000116.7easierNNE22278
1,000–1,5003311.4easierENE67278

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

Pine Knob Ski & Snowboard Resort 16 km Mt. Holly Ski & Snowboard Resort 20 km Mt Brighton 27 km

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