When it bought Blackcomb Mountain, then just six years old and suffering growing pains, from a subsidiary of Aspen Skiing in 1986, it wasn't looking at the then state - of - the - art lifts so much as the developable land around the base of the hill, which bordered on the new Whistler Village. (canadianbusiness.com)
This is a not a choice made on the basis of Hill's titanic performances at the back, since there haven't been any. (sbnation.com)
In a classic earlier study that Witt referenced, researchers asked participants at the base of a hill to estimate the hill's slope. (sciencemag.org)