Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field Mountain

The lifts stop at 1,289 m. The mountain keeps going to 1,928 m — another 639 m of ground stands above the highest lift.

That ground is outside the ski area. It is not patrolled.

A pixel relief map of the ground around Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field, drawn from elevation data for the surveyed area — its ridges and valleys in eight tones of ink.

01Which way it faces

N E S W

Faces east.

Most of the mapped runs fall away toward the east.

02How steep it gets

18.9° the steepest tenth of runs

Its steepest pitch measures 34.9°.

03How it compares

539 m of vertical — more than 7 of the 29 mountains on JapowDB.

Its steepest tenth is steeper than 15 of the 28 mountains here that carry pitch data.