Blue Stowe, VT
Lower Cliff Trail drops 296 vertical feet over 1,560 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 1,520 feet below the top. That's steeper than 60% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 55th steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 11°, Lower Cliff Trail gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stowe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 71st sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 2,950 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.