Black diamond Mount Sunapee, NH
Upper Cataract drops 318 vertical feet over 1,171 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 730 feet below the top. That's steeper than 14% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 74 named runs at Mount Sunapee. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Upper Cataract gets about 88% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Sunapee does, December through March. That's sunnier than 57% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Mount Sunapee. Its top sits at 2,200 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.