Double black Shawness Peak, ME
The Gut drops 568 vertical feet over 1,720 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 680 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, The Gut gets about 87% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 56% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,360 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.