It would be cool to see a chart of skier visits/acre (a bar chart would probably make more sense than a pie chart). That might approximate crowdedness, although there are a lot of factors there, including uphill capacity.
Speaking of which, measuring uphill capacity would be cool too. Chairlift seats * vert / hour. Comparing a ski areas' uphill capacity vs acreage on a scatter plot might indicate which places get tracked out the fastest on a pow day, assuming they are running full chairs.
On the note of acreage for Dollar Mountain, Sun Valley, I know it’s a lot bigger than just 10 acres. Not sure if you consider Peakrankings an accurate source, but they claim it has a 189 acre footprint.
It would be cool to see a chart of skier visits/acre (a bar chart would probably make more sense than a pie chart). That might approximate crowdedness, although there are a lot of factors there, including uphill capacity.
Speaking of which, measuring uphill capacity would be cool too. Chairlift seats * vert / hour. Comparing a ski areas' uphill capacity vs acreage on a scatter plot might indicate which places get tracked out the fastest on a pow day, assuming they are running full chairs.
Liftblog.com has all that data. You’d have to sift through it and do some math though
On the note of acreage for Dollar Mountain, Sun Valley, I know it’s a lot bigger than just 10 acres. Not sure if you consider Peakrankings an accurate source, but they claim it has a 189 acre footprint.
And according to the local chamber of commerce, nearby Rotarun is 15 acres
https://valleychamber.org/the-little-mountain-with-the-big-heart/