Blue Shawness Peak, ME
Sunset Boulevard drops 268 vertical feet over 2,150 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 1,080 feet below the top. That's steeper than 13% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 7°, Sunset Boulevard gets about 72% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 67% of the runs we've measured, and the 25th shadiest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,760 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.