510 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 4,931 ft to a summit of
5,441 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.
510
ft vertical
4,931
ft base
5,441
ft summit
2
uphill lifts
9
footprint acres
The column
2 bands · base to summit
4,500–5,0003 ac · 9.5° · SW927 mm
5,000–5,5006 ac · 14.6° · WSW927 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
2
All lifts
2
Lift length
1.1 km
Steepest band
14.6°
Operator
—
Coordinates
45.7587, -118.0477
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
4,500–5,000
3
9.5
easier
SW
232
927
5,000–5,500
6
14.6
easier
WSW
241
927
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
High Ridge SNOTEL (523:OR:SNTL) is
8.3 km away at 4,900 ft —
541 ft below this summit. It reports hourly precipitation,
snow water equivalent and temperature at a surveyed elevation, which is the only
truth at height that does not have to be interpolated first. Forecasts for this mountain
will be scored there, and the score published whether or not it flatters.