Double black (off-piste) Mount Sunapee, NH
Lower Summit Glades drops 260 vertical feet over 901 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 260 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 23rd steepest of 74 named runs at Mount Sunapee. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 17°, Lower Summit Glades gets about 63% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Sunapee does, December through March. That's shadier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th shadiest named run at Mount Sunapee. Its top sits at 2,330 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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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.