Black diamond Holiday Valley, NY
Cross Cut drops 393 vertical feet over 1,644 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 880 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 21st steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 14°, Cross Cut gets about 112% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 2,150 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.
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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.