Blue Whiteface Mountain, NY
John's Bypass drops 289 vertical feet over 1,130 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 150 feet below the top. That's steeper than 86% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 28th steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 15°, John's Bypass gets about 95% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 66% of the runs we've measured, and the 63rd sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 3,520 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.