Blue Killington, VT
Bear Claw drops 607 vertical feet over 2,486 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 2,000 feet below the top. That's steeper than 61% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 74th steepest of 154 named runs at Killington. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 14°, Bear Claw gets about 79% of the winter sun that flat ground at Killington does, December through March. That's shadier than 57% of the runs we've measured, and the 60th shadiest named run at Killington. Its top sits at 3,250 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.