489 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 1,318 ft to a summit of
1,807 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.
489
ft vertical
1,318
ft base
1,807
ft summit
3
uphill lifts
21
footprint acres
The column
2 bands · base to summit
1,000–1,50012 ac · 9.4° · SW376 mm
1,500–2,0009 ac · 20.9° · SSW376 mm
under 15° easier15–25° more difficult25–33° most difficultover 33° expertbar length = acres · fill = elevation
Bands
2
All lifts
5
Lift length
1.2 km
Steepest band
20.9°
Operator
Tussey Mountain Associates
Coordinates
40.7684, -77.7524
Band by band
slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)
Acres
Slope°
Rating
Aspect
Deg
NDJFM mm
1,000–1,500
12
9.4
easier
SW
214
376
1,500–2,000
9
20.9
more difficult
SSW
213
376
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.