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Shamrock

Green Holiday Valley, NY

Steepest pitch10°
Vertical125 ft
Length1,107 ft
Average pitch7°
FacesSE
Top1,881 ft

Shamrock drops 125 vertical feet over 1,107 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 10° about 140 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 70th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces southeast.

How well Shamrock holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing southeast at an average 7°, Shamrock gets about 109% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 1,880 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Shamrock profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Shamrock elsewhere

Nearby at Holiday Valley

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.