Black diamond Ragged Mounain, NH
Cemetery Gates drops 116 vertical feet over 381 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 34° about 130 feet below the top. That's steeper than 81% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 1st steepest of 53 named runs at Ragged Mounain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 18°, Cemetery Gates gets about 111% of the winter sun that flat ground at Ragged Mounain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Ragged Mounain. Its top sits at 2,080 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.