Blue Stowe, VT
#1 Cut Across drops 76 vertical feet over 1,067 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 19% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 104th steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 6°, #1 Cut Across gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stowe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 2,640 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.
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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.