Blue Smugglers Notch, VT
Midway drops 596 vertical feet over 5,128 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 4,810 feet below the top. That's steeper than 99% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 79 named runs at Smugglers Notch. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 7°, Midway gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Smugglers Notch does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Smugglers Notch. Its top sits at 2,190 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.