Blue Stowe, VT
Upper Lord drops 454 vertical feet over 2,545 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 390 feet below the top. That's steeper than 18% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 105th steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 10°, Upper Lord gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stowe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 58th sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 3,610 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.