Black diamond Ski Mystic Deer Mountain, SD
Vertigo drops 283 vertical feet over 947 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 720 feet below the top. That's steeper than 16% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 52 named runs at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 18°, Vertigo gets about 112% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Ski Mystic Deer Mountain. Its top sits at 6,330 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.