Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
Little Bowl drops 272 vertical feet over 1,398 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 520 feet below the top. That's steeper than 76% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 10th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Little Bowl gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 28th sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,480 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.