Black diamond Stowe, VT
West Smugglers drops 123 vertical feet over 512 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 420 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 43rd steepest of 121 named runs at Stowe. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 14°, West Smugglers gets about 141% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stowe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 96% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Stowe. Its top sits at 2,210 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.
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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.