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One Small Step

Blue Mount Snow, VT

Steepest pitch12°
Vertical53 ft
Length523 ft
Average pitch6°
FacesSE
Top3,050 ft

One Small Step drops 53 vertical feet over 523 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 340 feet below the top. That's steeper than 5% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 83rd steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces southeast.

How well One Small Step holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 6°, One Small Step gets about 114% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Snow does, December through March. That's sunnier than 83% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Mount Snow. Its top sits at 3,050 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.

One Small Step profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like One Small Step 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.