Black diamond Shawness Peak, ME
Cooley's drops 308 vertical feet over 1,004 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 600 feet below the top. That's steeper than 14% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 18°, Cooley's gets about 52% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd shadiest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,390 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.