Blue Holiday Valley, NY
Independence drops 399 vertical feet over 1,705 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 700 feet below the top. That's steeper than 37% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 28th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 14°, Independence gets about 69% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th shadiest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 2,240 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.