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- Vertical
- 1,097ft
- Easier
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Named on the plaque: Summit Lodge, Valley
200 x 200 mm. Raised trails on a white base, black frame. Printed in Delaware on our own printer.
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What you are holding
A cross-section, to scale in height. The whole plaque is 4 mm at its tallest.
- Size
- 200 x 200 mm, about 7.9 inches square
- Weight
- About 125 g
- Material
- PLA, a plant-based plastic, in four filaments: white, green, blue, black
- Base
- 2 mm white, 10 mm corner radius
- Frame
- 4 mm wide, raised to 4 mm, black
- Trails
- 2 mm wide, stepped by rating: green to 2.8 mm, blue to 3.4 mm, black to 4 mm
- Ink
- Title, region, summit, vertical, legend and base names, black, 2 to 4 mm
- Layers
- 0.2 mm; colour lives in the top layers, so one map is about 12 filament changes
- Back
- Keyhole slot for one nail or screw, and the OpenStreetMap credit
Not your mountain yet?
Name it. We build it from open map data, send you a preview, and a pay link if it passes our check. Any US resort.
Run a mountain shop?
Stock SKIYEE. Tell us the shop and the mountain, and we will email you wholesale details.
How it is made
Open map data, a height map, four filaments, one plaque at a time on our own printer.
Notes from the bench
What changed, when, and why, as each mountain went from map data to plastic.
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Loon leans fifteen
Three renders on the bench, fifteen degrees won. Tote Road is the one link between South Peak and the main hill, so it prints dashed and named.
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Trails must connect
Sugarbush printed with runs stopping short of each other. Measuring each trail end found nineteen gaps. Snapping ends within a hundred metres closed all nineteen.
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Stowe, west up
Stowe would not sit still in the standard layout, so it became a panorama: west up, Spruce Peak turned onto its own fall line, one base village.
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Peak names from GNIS
Peaks are spelled the way the federal Geographic Names Information System spells them, in full. Lodges keep the name the resort writes, because that is a business name.
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Summit means highest trail
Stowe was printing the top of Mount Mansfield, and no trail goes there. The summit figure is now the highest trail point, 3,984 ft, which is where a skier stands.
Older notes (9)
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Four bases at Killington
Three named bases was not enough. Sunrise Village went on as the fourth, with the real name, and four ways the resort does not list at all came off.
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A trail drawn twice
Map data keeps history, so Old Superstar sat beside Superstar. Drawing both is one trail twice. Proven duplicates are dropped now, and the smaller count is the honest one.
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Two honest labels
Jordan Bowl's base sits eleven millimetres from the edge and its name could not be placed without moving the dot off the real spot. The label came off instead.
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Never shorten a lodge
Bear Mountain is not Bear. If a name does not fit, the map changes, not the name. A dropped label now fails the build instead of shipping a nameless dot.
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Sliced or unproven
Three bigger plaques passed the geometry check and the slicer refused all three. The plate caps the map near 150 by 138 mm whatever wraps it. Only a slice is proof.
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Lookup name, printed name
The database calls it Stowe Mountain Resort. As a title that ran straight through the summit figures. The lookup name and the printed name are two different things now.
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What stops a batch
Ten maps in a row broke four times and none of it was the map: a cached timeout, two flaky data services, a slicer that dies when started twice. Retries and real waits.
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Data, not vibes
Summit at the top, bases at the bottom, always. Nothing overlaps. Elevations come from the USGS model on the trails, never from marketing. Base names come from a real lift.
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Format locked on Jay Peak
Jay Peak v10 is the sign every other one copies. Fifteen percent infill bridged pinholes into the white top, so every map is solid inside now, about thirty grams more.
What it is, and what it is not
- A map for the wall. Not a navigation aid. Nobody should ski off it.
- Open trail data. Trail lines come from OpenStreetMap, an open database people edit by hand. The trails on a plaque are the trails OpenStreetMap holds. Map data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
- Measured elevations. Summit and vertical come from the USGS 3DEP elevation model, at the highest and lowest trail points, not from resort marketing.
- Independent. SKIYEE is made by HappyDale Holding LLC. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to any ski resort. Resort names appear as plain geographic names.
- Credited on the back. Each plaque carries the OpenStreetMap attribution on its reverse.
Questions
How big is it?
200 x 200 mm, about 7.9 inches square, and around 125 grams.
What is it made of?
PLA, a plant-based plastic, in four colours. Keep it out of direct sun and hot cars.
How does it hang?
A keyhole slot on the back takes one nail or screw. It also stands on a shelf.
How do I clean it?
A dry or slightly damp cloth. No solvents.
What if my mountain is not listed?
Use the request form. We build it, send you a preview, and you pay only if it passes our check. We do not promise a date.
Returns?
Thirty days, unused, in the original box. You cover return shipping and we refund on receipt. Full returns policy
Privacy?
The forms send your answers to a private queue we read by hand. Nothing is sold, and this site sets no cookies. Full privacy policy
Which mountains can you make?
Any US resort that OpenStreetMap maps. Nine are in stock today; name another and we build it, then check every one by hand before it prints.
Is it hand made?
Drawn from open data by our own pipeline, printed one at a time on our own printer, and checked by eye before it ships.
Wholesale?
Six or more plaques for a shop. Use the shop form and we will email details.