Blue Stratton, VT
Shortcut Gentle Ben drops 119 vertical feet over 828 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 580 feet below the top. That's steeper than 43% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 47th steepest of 112 named runs at Stratton. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 9°, Shortcut Gentle Ben gets about 107% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stratton does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 8th sunniest named run at Stratton. Its top sits at 2,800 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.