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Minnesota · lift-served terrain

Detroit Mountain

182 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 1,442 ft to a summit of 1,624 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.

182
ft vertical
1,442
ft base
1,624
ft summit
2
uphill lifts
12
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
1,000–1,5004 ac · 9.3° · W103 mm
1,500–2,0008 ac · 15.2° · WNW103 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
4
Lift length
0.7 km
Steepest band
15.2°
Operator
—
Coordinates
46.8156, -95.7845

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
1,000–1,50049.3easierW276103
1,500–2,000815.2more difficultWNW297103

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

Andes Tower Hills 108 km Mount Ski Gull 115 km Buena Vista Ski Area 116 km

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