Blue Gore Mountain, NY
Paradox drops 174 vertical feet over 1,079 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 930 feet below the top. That's steeper than 8% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 96th steepest of 107 named runs at Gore Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 9°, Paradox gets about 89% of the winter sun that flat ground at Gore Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 59% of the runs we've measured, and the 71st sunniest named run at Gore Mountain. Its top sits at 1,890 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.