Black diamond Holiday Valley, NY
Firecracker West drops 95 vertical feet over 471 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 60 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 26th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 12°, Firecracker West gets about 71% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the 30th 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.