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Sunspot

Blue Mount Snow, VT

Steepest pitch13°
Vertical122 ft
Length766 ft
Average pitch9°
FacesSE
Top3,560 ft

Sunspot drops 122 vertical feet over 766 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 390 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 78th steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces southeast.

How well Sunspot holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 9°, Sunspot gets about 120% 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 7th sunniest named run at Mount Snow. Its top sits at 3,560 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.

Sunspot profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sunspot 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.