Blue Holiday Valley, NY
Firecracker East drops 139 vertical feet over 1,120 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 11% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 7°, Firecracker East gets about 76% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 41st shadiest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 1,830 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.