Double black (off-piste) Killington, VT
Thunderball drops 581 vertical feet over 2,061 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 1,230 feet below the top. That's steeper than 22% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 31st steepest of 154 named runs at Killington. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Thunderball gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Killington does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 49th sunniest named run at Killington. Its top sits at 2,240 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.