Blue Waterville Valley, NH
Lower White Caps drops 543 vertical feet over 2,025 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 1,100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 87% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 9th steepest of 65 named runs at Waterville Valley. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Lower White Caps gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Waterville Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 65% of the runs we've measured, and the 21st sunniest named run at Waterville Valley. Its top sits at 2,450 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.