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Minnesota · lift-served terrain

Andes Tower Hills

205 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 1,406 ft to a summit of 1,611 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.

205
ft vertical
1,406
ft base
1,611
ft summit
4
uphill lifts
31
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
1,000–1,50018 ac · 8.7° · SSW107 mm
1,500–2,00012 ac · 14.5° · SSW107 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
5
Lift length
1.1 km
Steepest band
14.5°
Operator
—
Coordinates
45.8496, -95.6308

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
1,000–1,500188.7easierSSW203107
1,500–2,0001214.5easierSSW199107

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

Detroit Mountain 108 km Mount Ski Gull 117 km Powder Ridge 117 km

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