1,132 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 4,096 ft to a summit of
5,228 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this
mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into
3 five-hundred-foot bands.
1,132
ft vertical
4,096
ft base
5,228
ft summit
5
uphill lifts
91
footprint acres
The column
3 bands · base to summit
4,000–4,50046 ac · 12.5° · SSE564 mm
4,500–5,00042 ac · 16.6° · SE564 mm
5,000–5,5003 ac · 25.9° · ESE555 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
3
All lifts
7
Lift length
4.5 km
Steepest band
25.9°
Operator
—
Coordinates
36.1278, -81.8668
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
4,000–4,500
46
12.5
easier
SSE
149
564
4,500–5,000
42
16.6
more difficult
SE
139
564
5,000–5,500
3
25.9
most difficult
ESE
111
555
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.