Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
Gold Digger drops 125 vertical feet over 983 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 790 feet below the top. That's steeper than 14% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 38th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 8°, Gold Digger gets about 79% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 57% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th shadiest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,420 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.