Blue Holiday Valley, NY
Northwind Lower drops 274 vertical feet over 1,585 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 10°, Northwind Lower gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 65% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 1,880 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.