Black diamond Shawness Peak, ME
Poacher's Paradise drops 357 vertical feet over 946 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 540 feet below the top. That's steeper than 28% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 22°, Poacher's Paradise 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 7th sunniest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,290 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.