Double black (off-piste) Killington, VT
Gold Dust - Upper drops 344 vertical feet over 1,617 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 540 feet below the top. That's steeper than 16% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 47th steepest of 154 named runs at Killington. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 13°, Gold Dust - Upper gets about 129% of the winter sun that flat ground at Killington does, December through March. That's sunnier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Killington. Its top sits at 2,160 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.