Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
Banana Belt drops 127 vertical feet over 1,591 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 1,560 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 44th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 5°, Banana Belt gets about 140% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 96% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,430 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.