Blue Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
The Turn drops 98 vertical feet over 582 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 550 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 30th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 10°, The Turn gets about 101% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,570 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.