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Whitefish Mountain Resort

2,281 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 4,485 ft to a summit of 6,766 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into 6 five-hundred-foot bands.

2,281
ft vertical
4,485
ft base
6,766
ft summit
14
uphill lifts
1,932
footprint acres

The column

6 bands · base to summit
4,000–4,50014 ac · 8.3° · NE550 mm
4,500–5,000388 ac · 14.1° · NE529 mm
5,000–5,500266 ac · 20.9° · N617 mm
5,500–6,000486 ac · 20.3° · N744 mm
6,000–6,500652 ac · 19.5° · E744 mm
6,500–7,000126 ac · 23.4° · N744 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
6
All lifts
16
Lift length
14.2 km
Steepest band
23.4°
Operator
—
Coordinates
48.4922, -114.3470

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
4,000–4,500148.3easierNE35550
4,500–5,00038814.1easierNE35529
5,000–5,50026620.9more difficultN359617
5,500–6,00048620.3more difficultN350744
6,000–6,50065219.5more difficultE97744
6,500–7,00012623.4more difficultN3744

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

Blacktail Mountain Ski Area 52 km Turner Mountain 96 km

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