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New Hampshire · lift-served terrain

Whaleback Mountain

632 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 1,147 ft to a summit of 1,779 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.

632
ft vertical
1,147
ft base
1,779
ft summit
3
uphill lifts
41
footprint acres

The column

2 bands · base to summit
1,000–1,50024 ac · 19.3° · SSE414 mm
1,500–2,00017 ac · 16.6° · SSE414 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
2
All lifts
5
Lift length
1.3 km
Steepest band
19.3°
Operator
Upper Valley Snow Sports Foundation
Coordinates
43.5998, -72.1815

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
1,000–1,5002419.3more difficultSSE168414
1,500–2,0001716.6more difficultSSE159414

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

Storrs Hill Ski Area 7 km Dartmouth Skiway 22 km Ski Quechee 22 km Ascutney Outdoors 27 km Arrowhead Recreation Area 29 km Saskadena Six 30 km

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