Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
Pipeline drops 171 vertical feet over 1,151 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 1,010 feet below the top. That's steeper than 15% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 37th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 9°, Pipeline gets about 96% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 67% of the runs we've measured, and the 21st sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,220 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.