Blue Burke Mountain, VT
Little Dipper drops 434 vertical feet over 1,473 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 30 feet below the top. That's steeper than 92% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 56 named runs at Burke Mountain. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 17°, Little Dipper gets about 59% of the winter sun that flat ground at Burke Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 19th shadiest named run at Burke Mountain. Its top sits at 2,320 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. 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.