Blue Sugarloaf, ME
Lower Binder drops 113 vertical feet over 800 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 360 feet below the top. That's steeper than 38% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 97th steepest of 148 named runs at Sugarloaf. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 8°, Lower Binder gets about 78% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sugarloaf does, December through March. That's shadier than 59% of the runs we've measured, and the 121st shadiest named run at Sugarloaf. Its top sits at 1,950 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.