Black diamond Mount Sunapee, NH
Upper Blast-Off drops 622 vertical feet over 2,488 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 790 feet below the top. That's steeper than 18% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 11th steepest of 74 named runs at Mount Sunapee. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 15°, Upper Blast-Off gets about 74% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Sunapee does, December through March. That's shadier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 31st shadiest named run at Mount Sunapee. Its top sits at 2,660 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.