Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
Little Buck drops 232 vertical feet over 930 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 410 feet below the top. That's steeper than 26% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 29th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Little Buck gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 65% of the runs we've measured, and the 24th sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,470 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.