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The Narrows

Black diamond Gore Mountain, NY

Steepest pitch24°
Vertical290 ft
Length1,143 ft
Average pitch15°
FacesS
Top3,086 ft

The Narrows drops 290 vertical feet over 1,143 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 340 feet below the top. That's steeper than 21% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 38th steepest of 107 named runs at Gore Mountain. It faces south.

How well The Narrows holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 15°, The Narrows gets about 143% of the winter sun that flat ground at Gore Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 97% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Gore Mountain. Its top sits at 3,090 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.

The Narrows profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like The Narrows 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.