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Alta Ski Area

1,984 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 8,558 ft to a summit of 10,542 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into 5 five-hundred-foot bands.

1,984
ft vertical
8,558
ft base
10,542
ft summit
7
uphill lifts
1,171
footprint acres

The column

5 bands · base to summit
8,500–9,000139 ac · 17.6° · SSW711 mm
9,000–9,500392 ac · 17.8° · SSW711 mm
9,500–10,000446 ac · 20.5° · S740 mm
10,000–10,500188 ac · 26.1° · S740 mm
10,500–11,0005 ac · 25.7° · SSW773 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
5
All lifts
11
Lift length
8.8 km
Steepest band
26.1°
Operator
—
Coordinates
40.5827, -111.6282

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
8,500–9,00013917.6more difficultSSW202711
9,000–9,50039217.8more difficultSSW196711
9,500–10,00044620.5more difficultS176740
10,000–10,50018826.1most difficultS176740
10,500–11,000525.7most difficultSSW195773

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
Atwater SNOTEL (1308:UT:SNTL) is 1.2 km away at 8,750 ft — 1,792 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.

Nearby

Snowbird 3 km Brighton Resort 4 km Solitude Mountain Resort 4 km Park City Mountain Resort 11 km Deer Valley Resort 13 km Utah Olympic Park 15 km

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