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Michigan · lift-served terrain

Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort

420 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 1,220 ft to a summit of 1,640 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.

420
ft vertical
1,220
ft base
1,640
ft summit
9
uphill lifts
206
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
1,000–1,500158 ac · 9.5° · S256 mm
1,500–2,00048 ac · 11.9° · SE258 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
10
Lift length
5.9 km
Steepest band
11.9°
Operator
—
Coordinates
46.5060, -90.0939

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
1,000–1,5001589.5easierS169256
1,500–2,0004811.9easierSE146258

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

Black River Basin 7 km Jackson Creek Summit 9 km Copper Peak Ski Jump Park 10 km Whitecap Mountain 26 km Porcupine Mountains Winter Sports Complex 48 km Mount Ashwabay Ski & Recreation Area 68 km

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