Blue Loon Mountain, NH
Harder Way drops 70 vertical feet over 488 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 40% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 41st steepest of 76 named runs at Loon Mountain. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 8°, Harder Way gets about 85% of the winter sun that flat ground at Loon Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 53% of the runs we've measured, and the 13th sunniest named run at Loon Mountain. Its top sits at 2,740 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.