Black diamond Whiteface Mountain, NY
Lower Wilderness drops 454 vertical feet over 1,125 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 160 feet below the top. That's steeper than 42% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 23rd steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 24°, Lower Wilderness gets about 101% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 54th sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 2,660 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.