Black diamond Holiday Valley, NY
Hoot Owl drops 235 vertical feet over 839 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 33% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 16°, Hoot Owl gets about 57% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th shadiest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 2,130 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.