Rusutsu Resort Mountain

The lifts stop at 994 m. The ridge behind carries on another 250 m, to 1,244 m.

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

A pixel relief map of the ground around Rusutsu Resort, 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

19.1° the steepest tenth of runs

03How it compares

594 m of vertical — more than 10 of the 29 mountains on JapowDB.

Its steepest tenth is steeper than 16 of the 28 mountains here that carry pitch data.