227 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 785 ft to a summit of
1,012 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.
227
ft vertical
785
ft base
1,012
ft summit
8
uphill lifts
55
footprint acres
The column
2 bands · base to summit
500–1,00054 ac · 11.8° · W161 mm
1,000–1,5001 ac · 7.0° · WSW161 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
2
All lifts
10
Lift length
2.5 km
Steepest band
11.8°
Operator
Mount Kato LLC
Coordinates
44.1304, -94.0363
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
500–1,000
54
11.8
easier
W
273
161
1,000–1,500
1
7.0
easier
WSW
237
161
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.