Blue Shawness Peak, ME
Beeline drops 182 vertical feet over 876 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 270 feet below the top. That's steeper than 29% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 29th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 12°, Beeline gets about 62% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 13th shadiest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 930 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.