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Upper Meadows

Blue Stowe, VT

Steepest pitch20°
Vertical132 ft
Length564 ft
Average pitch14°
FacesSE
Top1,985 ft

Upper Meadows drops 132 vertical feet over 564 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 380 feet below the top. That's steeper than 38% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 81st steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces southeast.

How well Upper Meadows holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 14°, Upper Meadows gets about 132% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stowe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 1,980 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.

Upper Meadows profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Upper Meadows 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.