Black diamond Mad River Glen, VT
Catamount Bowl drops 295 vertical feet over 820 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 32° about 230 feet below the top. That's steeper than 73% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 7th steepest of 60 named runs at Mad River Glen. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 21°, Catamount Bowl gets about 98% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mad River Glen does, December through March. That's sunnier than 69% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th sunniest named run at Mad River Glen. Its top sits at 3,610 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.