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Crystal Mountain

325 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 796 ft to a summit of 1,121 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.

325
ft vertical
796
ft base
1,121
ft summit
7
uphill lifts
152
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
500–1,00079 ac · 12.0° · ENE300 mm
1,000–1,50074 ac · 12.7° · ESE300 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
9
Lift length
2.5 km
Steepest band
12.7°
Operator
—
Coordinates
44.5228, -85.9971

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
500–1,0007912.0easierENE74300
1,000–1,5007412.7easierESE105300

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

Caberfae Peaks 38 km Whatta View 44 km Mt. Holiday 45 km Summit Mountain 80 km Schuss Mountain 83 km Boyne Mountain 110 km

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