Blue Mount Snow, VT
Big Dipper drops 541 vertical feet over 3,276 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 1,350 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 38th steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 10°, Big Dipper gets about 121% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Snow does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Mount Snow. Its top sits at 3,590 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.