Double black Sugarloaf, ME
Ball and Chain drops 509 vertical feet over 1,935 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 39° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 67% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 3rd steepest of 148 named runs at Sugarloaf. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 18°, Ball and Chain gets about 135% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sugarloaf does, December through March. That's sunnier than 94% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Sugarloaf. Its top sits at 3,870 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.