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West Virginia · lift-served terrain

Canaan Valley Resort

831 feet of lift-served vertical, from a base of 3,431 ft to a summit of 4,262 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.

831
ft vertical
3,431
ft base
4,262
ft summit
2
uphill lifts
68
footprint acres

The column

3 bands · base to summit
3,000–3,5004 ac · 11.1° · S606 mm
3,500–4,00055 ac · 13.7° · S606 mm
4,000–4,5009 ac · 18.3° · S620 mm
under 15° easier 15–25° more difficult 25–33° most difficult over 33° expert bar length = acres · fill = elevation
NESW
Bands
3
All lifts
4
Lift length
1.2 km
Steepest band
18.3°
Operator
—
Coordinates
39.0056, -79.4387

Band by band

slope, aspect and winter normal
Band (ft)AcresSlope° RatingAspectDeg NDJFM mm
3,000–3,500411.1easierS182606
3,500–4,0005513.7easierS176606
4,000–4,500918.3more difficultS179620

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

Timberline Mountain 5 km Wisp Resort 61 km Bryce Resort 62 km Snowshoe Mountain 81 km Massanutten Resort 90 km Mystic Mountain Ski Area 91 km

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