Green Pine Mountain, MI
Nirvana drops 143 vertical feet over 743 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 640 feet below the top. That's steeper than 45% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 15th steepest of 33 named runs at Pine Mountain. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 11°, Nirvana gets about 66% of the winter sun that flat ground at Pine Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 77% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th shadiest named run at Pine Mountain. Its top sits at 1,400 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.