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First Time

Green Sugarbush, VT

Steepest pitch10°
Vertical81 ft
Length636 ft
Average pitch7°
FacesSE
Top1,690 ft

First Time drops 81 vertical feet over 636 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 10° about 400 feet below the top. That's steeper than 22% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 119th steepest of 120 named runs at Sugarbush. It faces southeast.

How well First Time holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing southeast at an average 7°, First Time gets about 109% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sugarbush does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Sugarbush. Its top sits at 1,690 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.

First Time profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like First Time elsewhere

Nearby at Sugarbush

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.