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Minnesota · lift-served terrain

Giants Ridge Resort

428 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 1,417 ft to a summit of 1,845 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.

428
ft vertical
1,417
ft base
1,845
ft summit
5
uphill lifts
110
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
1,000–1,50018 ac · 13.7° · ESE137 mm
1,500–2,00092 ac · 11.7° · SE137 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
8
Lift length
3.2 km
Steepest band
13.7°
Operator
—
Coordinates
47.5742, -92.3076

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
1,000–1,5001813.7easierESE115137
1,500–2,0009211.7easierSE137137

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

Chester Bowl 86 km Mt. Itasca 92 km Spirit Mountain 96 km Mont du Lac 103 km Lutsen Mountains 119 km

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