Black diamond Okemo, VT
Searle's Way drops 607 vertical feet over 2,585 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 580 feet below the top. That's steeper than 15% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 30th steepest of 124 named runs at Okemo. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Searle's Way gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Okemo does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 59th sunniest named run at Okemo. Its top sits at 2,930 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.