Green Sunday River, ME
Backside drops 61 vertical feet over 1,073 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 9° about 1,050 feet below the top. That's steeper than 15% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 121st steepest of 126 named runs at Sunday River. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 4°, Backside gets about 90% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sunday River does, December through March. That's sunnier than 60% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th sunniest named run at Sunday River. Its top sits at 2,140 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.