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Smugglers' Notch Resort

2,544 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 1,079 ft to a summit of 3,623 ft. Measured from the lowest and highest lift terminal on this mountain — not a box around a map pin — and cut into 6 five-hundred-foot bands.

2,544
ft vertical
1,079
ft base
3,623
ft summit
7
uphill lifts
1,081
footprint acres

The column

6 bands · base to summit
1,000–1,500219 ac · 11.7° · WSW534 mm
1,500–2,000405 ac · 15.6° · WSW599 mm
2,000–2,500273 ac · 20.5° · SW673 mm
2,500–3,000147 ac · 22.8° · SSW673 mm
3,000–3,50036 ac · 26.5° · SW698 mm
3,500–4,0001 ac · 32.8° · WSW710 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
6
All lifts
9
Lift length
8.7 km
Steepest band
32.8°
Operator
Smugglers' Notch Management LTD
Coordinates
44.5752, -72.7732

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
1,000–1,50021911.7easierWSW248534
1,500–2,00040515.6more difficultWSW248599
2,000–2,50027320.5more difficultSW222673
2,500–3,00014722.8more difficultSSW210673
3,000–3,5003626.5most difficultSW235698
3,500–4,000132.8most difficultWSW238710

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

Stowe Mountain Resort 5 km (Leitner-) 18 km Bolton Valley Resort 18 km Cochran's Ski Area 26 km Mad River Glen 43 km Jay Peak Resort 45 km

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