Blue Holiday Valley, NY
Mardi Gras drops 684 vertical feet over 4,447 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 3,730 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 35th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 9°, Mardi Gras gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th sunniest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 2,270 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.