Blue Shawness Peak, ME
Wizard drops 171 vertical feet over 574 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 260 feet below the top. That's steeper than 55% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 15th steepest of 42 named runs at Shawness Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 17°, Wizard gets about 58% of the winter sun that flat ground at Shawness Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th shadiest named run at Shawness Peak. Its top sits at 1,260 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.