315 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 710 ft to a summit of
1,025 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.
315
ft vertical
710
ft base
1,025
ft summit
8
uphill lifts
188
footprint acres
The column
2 bands · base to summit
500–1,000153 ac · 13.7° · SE163 mm
1,000–1,50035 ac · 5.7° · ESE163 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
2
All lifts
10
Lift length
3.7 km
Steepest band
13.7°
Operator
Nelson Family
Coordinates
44.5566, -92.7298
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
500–1,000
153
13.7
easier
SE
132
163
1,000–1,500
35
5.7
easier
ESE
115
163
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.