Black diamond Shawness Peak, ME
Tycoon drops 437 vertical feet over 1,378 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 35% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 3rd steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, Tycoon gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,330 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.