Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
Gold Run drops 224 vertical feet over 1,011 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 690 feet below the top. That's steeper than 66% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 13°, Gold Run gets about 117% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,650 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.