Blue Smugglers Notch, VT
Evaporator drops 358 vertical feet over 1,648 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 230 feet below the top. That's steeper than 60% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 51st steepest of 79 named runs at Smugglers Notch. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 13°, Evaporator gets about 70% of the winter sun that flat ground at Smugglers Notch does, December through March. That's shadier than 71% of the runs we've measured, and the 48th shadiest named run at Smugglers Notch. Its top sits at 1,760 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.