Blue Waterville Valley, NH
Palmer's Way drops 39 vertical feet over 298 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 22% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 65 named runs at Waterville Valley. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 8°, Palmer's Way gets about 123% of the winter sun that flat ground at Waterville Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 89% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th sunniest named run at Waterville Valley. Its top sits at 3,450 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.