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Shooting Star

Blue Mount Snow, VT

Steepest pitch16°
Vertical369 ft
Length2,365 ft
Average pitch9°
FacesSE
Top3,367 ft

Shooting Star drops 369 vertical feet over 2,365 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 16% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 71st steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces southeast.

How well Shooting Star holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 9°, Shooting Star gets about 123% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Snow does, December through March. That's sunnier than 89% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Mount Snow. Its top sits at 3,370 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.

Shooting Star profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Shooting Star 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.