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Prospector

Blue Mount Snow, VT

Steepest pitch12°
Vertical184 ft
Length1,492 ft
Average pitch7°
FacesSE
Top2,550 ft

Prospector drops 184 vertical feet over 1,492 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 1,170 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 82nd steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces southeast.

How well Prospector holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 7°, Prospector gets about 116% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Snow does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Mount Snow. Its top sits at 2,550 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.

Prospector profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Prospector 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.