Blue Shawness Peak, ME
Upper Roosevelt drops 247 vertical feet over 1,780 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 1,630 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 34th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 9°, Upper Roosevelt gets about 83% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 50% of the runs we've measured, and the 32nd shadiest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,430 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.