Blue Hunter Mountain, NY
Rip Van Winkle drops 303 vertical feet over 1,923 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 840 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 47th steepest of 54 named runs at Hunter Mountain. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 9°, Rip Van Winkle gets about 76% of the winter sun that flat ground at Hunter Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th shadiest named run at Hunter Mountain. Its top sits at 2,100 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.