Blue Shawness Peak, ME
Lower Appalachian drops 265 vertical feet over 1,136 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 220 feet below the top. That's steeper than 34% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 24th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Lower Appalachian gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 65% of the runs we've measured, and the 8th sunniest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 790 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.