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Michigan · lift-served terrain

Mt Brighton

176 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 940 ft to a summit of 1,116 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.

176
ft vertical
940
ft base
1,116
ft summit
5
uphill lifts
43
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
500–1,00025 ac · 8.4° · S275 mm
1,000–1,50018 ac · 14.4° · S275 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
12
Lift length
2.4 km
Steepest band
14.4°
Operator
—
Coordinates
42.5393, -83.8089

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
500–1,000258.4easierS178275
1,000–1,5001814.4easierS180275

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

Alpine Valley Ski Area 27 km Mt. Holly Ski & Snowboard Resort 38 km Pine Knob Ski & Snowboard Resort 43 km

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