Blue Stowe, VT
Lower National drops 636 vertical feet over 3,089 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 890 feet below the top. That's steeper than 44% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 71st steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Lower National gets about 87% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stowe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 56% of the runs we've measured, and the 78th sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 2,190 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.