Green Sugarloaf, ME
Birches Slope drops 195 vertical feet over 2,191 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 8° about 340 feet below the top. That's steeper than 12% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 148th steepest of 148 named runs at Sugarloaf. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 5°, Birches Slope gets about 88% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sugarloaf does, December through March. That's sunnier than 57% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Sugarloaf. Its top sits at 1,780 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.