Double black (off-piste) Killington, VT
Old Gold Dust drops 286 vertical feet over 1,129 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 490 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 106th steepest of 154 named runs at Killington. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 15°, Old Gold Dust gets about 100% of the winter sun that flat ground at Killington does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 56th sunniest named run at Killington. Its top sits at 1,660 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.