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Sugar Plum

Green Holiday Valley, NY

Steepest pitch10°
Vertical76 ft
Length865 ft
Average pitch5°
FacesE
Top1,851 ft

Sugar Plum drops 76 vertical feet over 865 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 10° about 260 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 68th steepest of 74 named runs at Holiday Valley. It faces east.

How well Sugar Plum holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 5°, Sugar Plum gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Holiday Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 74% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Holiday Valley. Its top sits at 1,850 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.

Sugar Plum profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sugar Plum 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.