Blue Snowshoe Mountain, WV
J Hook drops 359 vertical feet over 1,592 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 940 feet below the top. That's steeper than 22% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 30th steepest of 63 named runs at Snowshoe Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, J Hook gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowshoe Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 65% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Snowshoe Mountain. Its top sits at 4,630 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.