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Horn

Double black (off-piste) Killington, VT

Steepest pitch14°
Vertical264 ft
Length1,944 ft
Average pitch8°
FacesS
Top3,554 ft

Horn drops 264 vertical feet over 1,944 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 2% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 134th steepest of 154 named runs at Killington. It faces south.

How well Horn holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 8°, Horn gets about 117% of the winter sun that flat ground at Killington does, December through March. That's sunnier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th sunniest named run at Killington. Its top sits at 3,550 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.

Horn profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Horn elsewhere

Nearby at Killington

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.