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Alpine Valley Ski Area

10 / 100 Powder Score

Alpine Valley Ski Area is a ski area in United States. It sits at about 298 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 1.3 km². Within 2.5 km of the centre, the map shows 20 marked runs and 13 lifts, totalling about 4.1 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 63 cm of snowfall a season, 2674th (tied) of the 3,112 ski areas we measure worldwide. The model runs well below what resorts report, so the ranking is the meaningful part rather than the centimetre figure. 3 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h

0cm

Snow 48h

0cm

Next 24h

0cm

Next 72h

0cm

Temperature

15℃

Max wind

15.5km/h

Elevation

298m

Area

1.3km²

Elevation of the ski area’s centre point, taken from a digital elevation model. It is not the base-to-summit range.

We do not show a snow depth here. The weather model we use reports snow lying on the ground — it knows nothing about grooming or snowmaking, and it is not the base depth a ski area publishes. In Japan we can check our figures against 234 weather stations. Outside Japan there is nothing to check them against, so we do not print a number we have not verified. Snow report on the official site ↗

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40

Forecast (24h) 0/25

Snow quality 0/20

Wind 8/10

Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date	Temp	Wind
☁️ 26 Sept	7.6 / 21.3	14.4
🌫️ 27 Sept	8.9 / 23.5	15.5
🌫️ 28 Sept	10.7 / 23.4	15.8
☁️ 29 Sept	10.8 / 24	11.8
🌧️ 30 Sept	14.4 / 22.2	22.2
🌧️ 1 Oct	16.5 / 19.1	17
☁️ 2 Oct	9.9 / 18.7	15.2

Runs and lifts

Counted from the runs and lifts drawn on OpenStreetMap, within the boundary of the ski area. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Marked runs

Run length

4.4km

Lifts

Vertical

76m

Top 369 m · base 293 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift

North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.

The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map0.4 km

Steepest pitch17°measured over at least 30 m

Average gradient of the runs8.5°

Which way the slopes face

North 3%

East 86%

South 8%

West 2%

89% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east. Those slopes get the least sun, so the snow lasts longer.

By difficulty

Easy 8

Intermediate 6

Advanced 4

Expert 3

Lift types

Chairlift5
Rope tow4
Magic carpet1

See past trail maps on Skimap.org ↗

Source: OpenSkiMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). How finely ski areas are drawn varies by region, so treat the counts as indicative. Vertical is the difference between the highest and lowest points of the mapped runs and lifts.

How much snow it gets

Measured by us across 3,112 ski areas by one identical method. These are not the resort’s own published figures.

Seasonal snowfall

63 cm

per season

Range over three winters

16 cm

57–73 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.

World rank

2674

of 3,112 worldwide

Rank in country

459

of 541 in United States

Elevation rank

428

Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 298 m, 236 m below the national median.

Compared with what is nearby

Within 50 km straight line. Measured the same way, so the ranks compare directly. Ski areas a few kilometres apart share a weather grid cell and can return the same figure.

Ski area	Distance	Seasonal snowfall	World rank
Pine Knob Ski & Snowboard Resort	16 km	68 cm	2608
Mt. Holly Ski & Snowboard Resort	20 km	64 cm	2657
Mt Brighton	27 km	60 cm	2705

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in January. March brings 55% of January’s snowfall. That is a steeper fall than the median for ski areas in the United States (85%): the snow here is concentrated early in the season. In amount, March brings 12 cm, less than the median of 30 cm.

13cm

Dec

22cm

Jan

20cm

Feb

12cm

Mar

Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters