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Upper Hootenanny

Green Snowshoe Mountain, WV

Steepest pitch11°
Vertical175 ft
Length1,599 ft
Average pitch6°
FacesE
Top4,713 ft

Upper Hootenanny drops 175 vertical feet over 1,599 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 11° about 520 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 57th steepest of 63 named runs at Snowshoe Mountain. It faces east.

How well Upper Hootenanny holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 6°, Upper Hootenanny gets about 106% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowshoe Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 77% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Snowshoe Mountain. Its top sits at 4,710 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Upper Hootenanny profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Upper Hootenanny elsewhere

Nearby at Snowshoe Mountain

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.