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Sunlight Mountain

Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort

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Sunlight Mountain Snow Totals
Upcoming Snow Potential
3-Day
0"
5-Day
0"
10-Day
13"
This is About Average for Sunlight Mountain
Sunlight Mountain skiing by month:
Sunlight Mountain
By Month

Core Strengths

Sunlight Mountain
Travel Ease
65.1
Snow Quality
61.7
Overall
58.4
Overall
Overall PAF Score

Overall
Rank

98

Rank in
Region

52

Rank in
State

21

This resort is often compared with:

Steamboat
Snowmass
Crested Butte
Sunlight Mountain Snow Quality Across Full Winter
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Sunlight Mountain Snowfall Last 10 Days (inches)

Powder
Forecast

Powder Forecast
ZRANKINGS EXCLUSIVE
Thursday
Day
0"
Night
0"
Friday
Day
0"
Night
0"
Saturday
Day
0"
Night
0"
Sunday
Day
0"
Night
0"
Monday
Day
0"
Night
1"
True Snow: 232" per year
Snow Quality Rank

69

Accounts for resorts' snow quantity, moisture content, latitude, elevation, and slope aspects.

Dump Potential Rank

115

Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort is ranked No. 115 in North America for its total snowfall during an average season.

Historical Powder Odds
Daily Lottery

% of days with more than 6" of snow

9.5%

Extended Stay

% of months with more than 90" of snow

2.7%

Drought Threat

% of months with less than 30" of snow

35.1%

*Special thanks to Tony Crocker and Bestsnow.net.

Dump Potential Rank

115

Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort is ranked No. 115 in North America for its total snowfall during an average season.

Snow
Quality
Rank

69

Accounts for resorts' snow quantity, moisture content, latitude, elevation, and slope aspects.

Total Snow Score

This score accounts for total snow quantity, its moisture content, the resort's latitude, elevation, and its slope aspects, which affect total snow preservation.

Comparables

Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort

Trail Breakdown

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Vertical Drop

2010 ft

9895 ft
Base Elevation: 7885 ft

Slope Aspects

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A Few Words On The Snow

If you're waiting for a powder day at Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort, then you might have a long wait. Only 9.5% of winter days see more than 6 inches of snowfall, which means, on average, you'll have to spend 10 days or more mining the slopes at Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort to score that one great day. It could be worse, however. You could be muskie fishing.

Skiing at Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort is about getting outside, ripping up the slope, eating chili dogs and getting in as much vertical as you can. It's not about big dumps. And that's okay. This place is about honing your skills for that trip to Snowbird or Alaska. With only 2.7% of months at Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort getting more than 90 inches of snow, this isn't the place to set up your powderhound shack.

Drought Potential

If you're banking on snow and you're boarding a plane for a week at Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort, you should temper your expectations. This is a place where winter drought can grab hold of the weather pattern for long periods, as 35.1% of the winter months here see less than 30 inches of snow.

Getting to Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort, if you're flying in

If you have to get on a plane and still spend more than three hours, in this case a full 186 minutes to get to Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort, the payoff has to be big. We're here, hoping you get that bounty. Here's to snow at Sunlight Mountain Ski Resort, and lots of it; may your gamble pay off!