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Drop

Blue Mount Snow, VT

Steepest pitch18°
Vertical187 ft
Length1,337 ft
Average pitch8°
FacesNE
Top2,447 ft

Drop drops 187 vertical feet over 1,337 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 24% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 61st steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces northeast.

How well Drop holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing northeast at an average 8°, Drop gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Snow does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 36th sunniest named run at Mount Snow. Its top sits at 2,450 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.

Drop profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Drop 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.