Black diamond Whiteface Mountain, NY
Mountain Run drops 1,000 vertical feet over 2,605 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 1,100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 58% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 18th steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 23°, Mountain Run gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 59th sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 3,110 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.