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Upper 42nd Street

Blue Hunter Mountain, NY

Steepest pitch22°
Vertical207 ft
Length695 ft
Average pitch17°
FacesSE
Top2,604 ft

Upper 42nd Street drops 207 vertical feet over 695 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 55% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 28th steepest of 54 named runs at Hunter Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Upper 42nd Street holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 17°, Upper 42nd Street gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Hunter Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Hunter Mountain. Its top sits at 2,600 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.

Upper 42nd Street profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Upper 42nd Street elsewhere

Nearby at Hunter Mountain

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.