Green Snowshoe Mountain, WV
Heisler Way drops 228 vertical feet over 2,318 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 2,290 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 45th steepest of 63 named runs at Snowshoe Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 6°, Heisler Way gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowshoe Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th sunniest named run at Snowshoe Mountain. Its top sits at 4,690 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.