Black diamond Hunter Mountain, NY
East Side Drive drops 792 vertical feet over 2,968 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 50 feet below the top. That's steeper than 62% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 54 named runs at Hunter Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 16°, East Side Drive gets about 115% of the winter sun that flat ground at Hunter Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 83% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Hunter Mountain. Its top sits at 2,960 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.
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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.