Blue Shawness Peak, ME
The Main drops 573 vertical feet over 2,110 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 650 feet below the top. That's steeper than 46% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 21st steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 16°, The Main gets about 61% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th shadiest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,130 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.