Green Snowshoe Mountain, WV
Lower Hootenanny drops 402 vertical feet over 2,894 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 1,920 feet below the top. That's steeper than 78% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 29th steepest of 63 named runs at Snowshoe Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 8°, Lower Hootenanny gets about 101% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowshoe Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th sunniest named run at Snowshoe Mountain. Its top sits at 4,540 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.