Black diamond Blue Mountain, ON
Hog's Back drops 488 vertical feet over 2,279 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 1,510 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 16th steepest of 55 named runs at Blue Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 12°, Hog's Back gets about 79% of the winter sun that flat ground at Blue Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 56% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th shadiest named run at Blue Mountain. Its top sits at 1,400 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter lidar from Natural Resources Canada. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.