Black diamond Hunter Mountain, NY
Colonel's Alternate drops 199 vertical feet over 948 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 54 named runs at Hunter Mountain. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 12°, Colonel's Alternate gets about 86% of the winter sun that flat ground at Hunter Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 24th sunniest named run at Hunter Mountain. Its top sits at 3,160 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. 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.