Blue Smugglers Notch, VT
McPherson's drops 372 vertical feet over 1,261 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 67% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 47th steepest of 79 named runs at Smugglers Notch. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 17°, McPherson's gets about 62% of the winter sun that flat ground at Smugglers Notch does, December through March. That's shadier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 34th shadiest named run at Smugglers Notch. Its top sits at 2,310 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.