561 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 717 ft to a summit of
1,278 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.
561
ft vertical
717
ft base
1,278
ft summit
5
uphill lifts
105
footprint acres
The column
2 bands · base to summit
500–1,00056 ac · 11.2° · E168 mm
1,000–1,50049 ac · 10.5° · E169 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
2
All lifts
6
Lift length
2.9 km
Steepest band
11.2°
Operator
City of Duluth
Coordinates
46.7175, -92.2156
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
500–1,000
56
11.2
easier
E
83
168
1,000–1,500
49
10.5
easier
E
80
169
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.