Blue Burke Mountain, VT
The Gap drops 428 vertical feet over 1,458 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 220 feet below the top. That's steeper than 65% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 37th steepest of 56 named runs at Burke Mountain. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 17°, The Gap gets about 63% of the winter sun that flat ground at Burke Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th shadiest named run at Burke Mountain. Its top sits at 2,120 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.