Blue Cannon Mountain, NH
Lower Hardscrabble drops 526 vertical feet over 1,964 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 310 feet below the top. That's steeper than 86% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 28th steepest of 92 named runs at Cannon Mountain. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 16°, Lower Hardscrabble gets about 60% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cannon Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 38th shadiest named run at Cannon Mountain. Its top sits at 3,070 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.