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Cloud Nine

Blue Mount Snow, VT

Steepest pitch19°
Vertical518 ft
Length2,529 ft
Average pitch12°
FacesSE
Top3,593 ft

Cloud Nine drops 518 vertical feet over 2,529 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 1,670 feet below the top. That's steeper than 34% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 56th steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces southeast.

How well Cloud Nine holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 12°, Cloud Nine 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 5th 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.

Cloud Nine profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Cloud Nine elsewhere

Nearby at Mount Snow

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.