Black diamond Shawness Peak, ME
Upper Appalachian drops 339 vertical feet over 1,314 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 350 feet below the top. That's steeper than 13% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 13th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 15°, Upper Appalachian gets about 113% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,770 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.