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Porcupine Pass

Green Whiteface Mountain, NY

Steepest pitch13°
Vertical122 ft
Length759 ft
Average pitch9°
FacesS
Top1,427 ft

Porcupine Pass drops 122 vertical feet over 759 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 580 feet below the top. That's steeper than 36% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 81st steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces south.

How well Porcupine Pass holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 9°, Porcupine Pass gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 1,430 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.

Porcupine Pass profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Porcupine Pass 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.