Blue Shawness Peak, ME
Slide Chute drops 88 vertical feet over 447 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 35th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 12°, Slide Chute 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 12th shadiest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 820 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.