Black diamond Sugarbush, VT
Lower Lift Line drops 726 vertical feet over 2,511 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 920 feet below the top. That's steeper than 46% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 23rd steepest of 120 named runs at Sugarbush. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Lower Lift Line gets about 100% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sugarbush does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 40th sunniest named run at Sugarbush. Its top sits at 2,850 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.