Blue Smugglers Notch, VT
Rumrunner Variation drops 185 vertical feet over 1,115 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 960 feet below the top. That's steeper than 32% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 64th steepest of 79 named runs at Smugglers Notch. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 10°, Rumrunner Variation gets about 81% of the winter sun that flat ground at Smugglers Notch does, December through March. That's shadier than 53% of the runs we've measured, and the 68th shadiest named run at Smugglers Notch. Its top sits at 2,230 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.