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Switchback

Green Mount Snow, VT

Steepest pitch12°
Vertical70 ft
Length793 ft
Average pitch5°
FacesE
Top2,453 ft

Switchback drops 70 vertical feet over 793 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 35% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 80th steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces east.

How well Switchback holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 5°, Switchback gets about 108% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Snow does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 17th sunniest named run at Mount Snow. Its top sits at 2,450 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.

Switchback profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Switchback 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.