Green Snowshoe Mountain, WV
Powder Monkey drops 274 vertical feet over 1,991 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 1,610 feet below the top. That's steeper than 48% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 47th steepest of 63 named runs at Snowshoe Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 8°, Powder Monkey gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowshoe Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th sunniest named run at Snowshoe Mountain. Its top sits at 4,370 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.