Blue Smugglers Notch, VT
Birch Run drops 368 vertical feet over 1,875 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 240 feet below the top. That's steeper than 69% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 46th steepest of 79 named runs at Smugglers Notch. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 12°, Birch Run gets about 64% of the winter sun that flat ground at Smugglers Notch does, December through March. That's shadier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 37th shadiest named run at Smugglers Notch. Its top sits at 2,030 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.