Blue Stowe, VT
Lower Switchback drops 161 vertical feet over 1,076 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 500 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 118th steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 9°, Lower Switchback gets about 92% 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 73rd sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 1,800 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.