Blue Loon Mountain, NH
Bear Claw Extension drops 236 vertical feet over 1,474 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 180 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 76 named runs at Loon Mountain. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 10°, Bear Claw Extension gets about 114% of the winter sun that flat ground at Loon Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 83% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Loon Mountain. Its top sits at 2,730 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.