Blue Holiday Valley, NY
Cathedral drops 135 vertical feet over 1,177 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 64th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 7°, Cathedral gets about 83% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 50% of the runs we've measured, and the 52nd shadiest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 2,280 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 USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.