Green Stowe, VT
Birch Glades drops 107 vertical feet over 467 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 140 feet below the top. That's steeper than 87% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 76th steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, Birch Glades gets about 102% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stowe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 60th sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 2,450 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.