Green Stratton, VT
Shortcut Big Ben drops 220 vertical feet over 2,111 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 550 feet below the top. That's steeper than 79% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 59th steepest of 112 named runs at Stratton. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 6°, Shortcut Big Ben gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stratton does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 24th sunniest named run at Stratton. Its top sits at 2,750 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.