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Lookout Below

Black diamond Whiteface Mountain, NY

Steepest pitch31°
Vertical454 ft
Length1,593 ft
Average pitch17°
FacesS
Top2,892 ft

Lookout Below drops 454 vertical feet over 1,593 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 550 feet below the top. That's steeper than 65% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces south.

How well Lookout Below holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 17°, Lookout Below gets about 145% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 97% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 2,890 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.

Lookout Below profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Lookout Below elsewhere

Nearby at Whiteface Mountain

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.