Mt. Spokane Powder Hounds
By: Mt. Spokane Ski & Snowboard Park · 28 Jan
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Typical snowfall
161cm
A weather-model figure, worked out the same way for every ski area, and lower than what actually falls. Use it to compare ski areas, not against the resort’s own totals. How we measure →
- Elevation
- 1,181–1,783 m
- Across
- 4.4 km
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 ↗
Mt. Spokane, in United States, runs from 1,181 m at the base to 1,783 m at the top. Its mapped area is about 4.4 km across, with 61 marked runs and 8 lifts (about 36 km of piste in all).
Over the last twelve winters the ERA5 weather model gives it 161 cm of snowfall a season, 1,527th (tied) of 3,069 worldwide and 164th in the United States. It swings a lot from year to year: the biggest winter, 2016/17 (208 cm), brought more than 3 times as much as the leanest, 2014/15 (57 cm). December brings as much snow as January here (54 and 45 cm on average).
How much snow it gets
Modelled from weather data the same way at all 3,069 ski areas we cover. These are not the resort’s own published figures.
Seasonal snowfall
161cm
per season
Worst of 12 winters
57cm
The middle winter of the 12: 170 cm. The best: 208 cm.
World rank
1527
of 3,069 worldwide
Rank in country
164
of 534 in United States
Elevation rank
153
Highest to lowest, of 534 in United States. The centre point sits at 1,667 m, 1,139 m above the national median.
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
61
Run length
36km
Lifts
8
Vertical
602m
Top 1,783 m · base 1,181 m
Run map
EasyIntermediateAdvanced Lift
Slope shape, difficulty and lift types
The shape of the mountain
Longest run on the map1.6 km
Steepest pitch33°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.4°
Which way the slopes face
North 27%
East 40%
South 16%
West 17%
67% of the vertical on the runs descends to the north or east; plenty of the terrain faces the sun as well, so the lean is modest.
By difficulty
Easy 20 · 11 km
Intermediate 19 · 12.1 km
Advanced 22 · 13.1 km
Lift types
- Chairlift6
- Rope tow1
- 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.
When it falls, and how winters differ
Month by month
The most snow falls in December. March brings 58% 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 26 cm, about the same as the median of 30 cm.
54cmDec
45cmJan
35cmFeb
26cmMar
Winter by winter
Across the 12 winters measured, the average is 161 cm, and 5 of them fell short of it. The leanest was 2014/15 with 57 cm; the biggest was 2016/17 with 208 cm (3.6 times as much). For 33% of the 534 ski areas in the United States the leanest winter was 2015/16; here it was a different one.
57
120
208
207
168
175
153
172
198
189
157
122
14/1515/1616/1717/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/2525/26
Snowfall each winter (December–March total). The dashed line is the average; the numbers mark the leanest and the biggest winter.
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