Green Gore Mountain, NY
Starting Gate drops 29 vertical feet over 251 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 8° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 12% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 106th steepest of 107 named runs at Gore Mountain. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 7°, Starting Gate gets about 100% of the winter sun that flat ground at Gore Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 53rd sunniest named run at Gore Mountain. Its top sits at 1,530 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.