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Michigan · lift-served terrain

Porcupine Mountains Winter Sports Complex

548 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 786 ft to a summit of 1,334 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.

548
ft vertical
786
ft base
1,334
ft summit
1
uphill lifts
0
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
500–1,0000 ac · 9.7° · SSE275 mm
1,000–1,5000 ac · 16.9° · SSE275 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
3
Lift length
1.2 km
Steepest band
16.9°
Operator
—
Coordinates
46.8143, -89.6508

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
500–1,00009.7easierSSE157275
1,000–1,500016.9more difficultSSE166275

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

Copper Peak Ski Jump Park 41 km Jackson Creek Summit 42 km Black River Basin 44 km Big Powderhorn Mountain Resort 48 km Whitecap Mountain 73 km Mont Ripley Ski Area 90 km

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