Double black Whiteface Mountain, NY
Slide 5 drops 804 vertical feet over 1,671 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 360 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 29°, Slide 5 gets about 152% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 4,060 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.