Blue Smugglers Notch, VT
The Shire drops 234 vertical feet over 869 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 97% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 21st steepest of 79 named runs at Smugglers Notch. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 16°, The Shire gets about 80% of the winter sun that flat ground at Smugglers Notch does, December through March. That's shadier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 66th shadiest named run at Smugglers Notch. Its top sits at 2,430 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.