Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
Snowflake drops 217 vertical feet over 956 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 59% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 17th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, Snowflake gets about 107% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,490 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.