Green Cranmore Mountain, NH
Beginner's Basin drops 37 vertical feet over 246 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 10° about 170 feet below the top. That's steeper than 22% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 54 named runs at Cranmore Mountain. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 9°, Beginner's Basin gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cranmore Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 25th sunniest named run at Cranmore Mountain. Its top sits at 600 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.