Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
The Tuck drops 94 vertical feet over 540 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 46th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 10°, The Tuck gets about 85% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 54% of the runs we've measured, and the 34th sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,220 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.