Blue Waterville Valley, NH
Shortcut drops 6 vertical feet over 144 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 4° about 70 feet below the top. That's steeper than 0% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 65th steepest of 65 named runs at Waterville Valley. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 3°, Shortcut gets about 90% of the winter sun that flat ground at Waterville Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 60% of the runs we've measured, and the 24th sunniest named run at Waterville Valley. Its top sits at 3,450 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.