Blue Loon Mountain, NH
Bear Pause drops 328 vertical feet over 1,916 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 1,710 feet below the top. That's steeper than 19% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 57th steepest of 76 named runs at Loon Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 10°, Bear Pause gets about 84% of the winter sun that flat ground at Loon Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 51% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Loon Mountain. Its top sits at 1,840 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.