Blue Whiteface Mountain, NY
Lower Switchback drops 168 vertical feet over 800 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 55% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Lower Switchback gets about 112% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 36th sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 3,690 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.