165 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 853 ft to a summit of
1,018 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.
165
ft vertical
853
ft base
1,018
ft summit
3
uphill lifts
19
footprint acres
The column
2 bands · base to summit
500–1,00019 ac · 11.5° · ENE165 mm
1,000–1,5000 ac · 10.6° · SE165 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
2
All lifts
7
Lift length
1.0 km
Steepest band
11.5°
Operator
Three Rivers Park District
Coordinates
44.8432, -93.3654
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
500–1,000
19
11.5
easier
ENE
78
165
1,000–1,500
0
10.6
easier
SE
136
165
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.