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Main Street Headwall

Blue Stowe, VT

Steepest pitch29°
Vertical307 ft
Length1,208 ft
Average pitch15°
FacesSE
Top2,581 ft

Main Street Headwall drops 307 vertical feet over 1,208 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 450 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 27th steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces southeast.

How well Main Street Headwall holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 15°, Main Street Headwall gets about 136% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stowe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 95% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 2,580 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.

Main Street Headwall profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Main Street Headwall elsewhere

Nearby at Stowe

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.