Black diamond Gore Mountain, NY
Half pipe drops 62 vertical feet over 502 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 10° about 470 feet below the top. That's steeper than 0% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 102nd steepest of 107 named runs at Gore Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 7°, Half pipe gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Gore Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 67th sunniest named run at Gore Mountain. Its top sits at 1,120 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.