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Minnesota · lift-served terrain

Buck Hill

258 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 948 ft to a summit of 1,206 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.

258
ft vertical
948
ft base
1,206
ft summit
3
uphill lifts
17
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
500–1,0004 ac · 7.7° · E167 mm
1,000–1,50013 ac · 14.4° · ESE167 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
2.1 km
Steepest band
14.4°
Operator
Independent
Coordinates
44.7235, -93.2852

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
500–1,00047.7easierE80167
1,000–1,5001314.4easierESE112167

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

Hyland Hills Ski Area 15 km Afton Alps 42 km Welch Village 48 km Trollhaugen Ski Area 87 km Mount Kato Ski Area 89 km Wild Mountain 96 km

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