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Schweitzer Mountain Resort

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Schweitzer Mountain Resort is a ski area in United States. The terrain spans roughly 1740–1740 m above sea level. The mapped ski area covers about 6.0 km². Within 3.4 km of the centre, the map shows 112 marked runs and 10 lifts, totalling about 69 km of piste. Over the last three winters the ERA5 reanalysis gives it 294 cm of snowfall a season, 516th (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. 5 other ski areas lie within 120 km. Snow figures and the Powder Score are recalculated every day.

Snow 24h
0cm
Snow 48h
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Next 24h
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Next 72h
0cm
Temperature
2.7℃
Max wind
25.4km/h
Elevation (est.)
1740–1740m
Area
6.0km²

Elevation range is estimated by sampling points across the ski area.

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.

Score breakdown

Fresh (48h) 0/40
Forecast (24h) 0/25
Snow quality 0/20
Wind 6/10
Base 2/5

Powder Score v1.0.0

7-day outlook

Date Snow Temp Wind
☁️ 26 Sept 0 -1.1 / 3.9 26.8
☁️ 27 Sept 0 0.3 / 8.8 17.8
☁️ 28 Sept 0 0 / 11.5 10.2
☁️ 29 Sept 0 -2.3 / 8.6 9
☁️ 30 Sept 0 3.4 / 11.4 6.3
☁️ 1 Oct 0 1.2 / 17.5 6.8
🌦️ 2 Oct 0 2.4 / 11.2 9.7

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
104
Run length
74km
Lifts
10
Vertical
728m
Top 1,949 m · base 1,221 m

Run map

EasyIntermediateAdvancedOther Lift
North is up. Runs are coloured by difficulty; black lines are lifts.
Run map

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The shape of the mountain

Longest run on the map2.4 km
Steepest pitch36°measured over at least 30 m
Average gradient of the runs14.6°

Which way the slopes face

North 30%
East 45%
South 21%
West 3%

75% 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 3
Intermediate 43
Advanced 50
Other 8

Lift types

  • Chairlift8
  • T-bar1
  • 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
294 cm
per season
Range over three winters
80 cm
259–339 cm. Steadier from winter to winter than most.
World rank
516
of 3,112 worldwide
Rank in country
46
of 541 in United States
Elevation rank
150
Highest to lowest, of 541 in United States. The centre point sits at 1,740 m, 1,206 m above the national median.

When it falls, and how winters differ

Month by month

Month by month, the most snow falls in December. March brings 77% 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. For skiing, though, the amount matters more than the share: March brings 59 cm, more than the median of 30 cm.

86cm
Dec
77cm
Jan
60cm
Feb
59cm
Mar
Average snowfall by month, last 12 winters

Map

Where it sits relative to nearby resorts. For a piste map, see the official site.

More places to look

Updated: 26 Sept 2026, 23:28

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