Black diamond Holiday Valley, NY
Moonshadow drops 342 vertical feet over 1,555 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 840 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 43rd steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, Moonshadow gets about 102% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 2,220 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.