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Otter Slide

Blue Gore Mountain, NY

Steepest pitch19°
Vertical151 ft
Length534 ft
Average pitch17°
FacesSE
Top2,034 ft

Otter Slide drops 151 vertical feet over 534 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 300 feet below the top. That's steeper than 34% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 67th steepest of 107 named runs at Gore Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Otter Slide holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 17°, Otter Slide gets about 118% of the winter sun that flat ground at Gore Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Gore Mountain. Its top sits at 2,030 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Otter Slide profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Otter Slide elsewhere

Nearby at Gore Mountain

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.