Green Snowshoe Mountain, WV
magic carpet slope drops 22 vertical feet over 349 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 6° about 190 feet below the top. That's steeper than 5% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 62nd steepest of 63 named runs at Snowshoe Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 4°, magic carpet slope gets about 95% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowshoe Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 66% of the runs we've measured, and the 21st sunniest named run at Snowshoe Mountain. Its top sits at 4,450 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.