Black diamond Holiday Valley, NY
Maple Leaf drops 170 vertical feet over 687 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 190 feet below the top. That's steeper than 21% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 14°, Maple Leaf gets about 66% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 77% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th shadiest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 1,850 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.