Blue Smugglers Notch, VT
Father Bob's drops 454 vertical feet over 1,437 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 960 feet below the top. That's steeper than 95% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 27th steepest of 79 named runs at Smugglers Notch. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 19°, Father Bob's gets about 72% of the winter sun that flat ground at Smugglers Notch does, December through March. That's shadier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 50th shadiest named run at Smugglers Notch. Its top sits at 2,780 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.