Double black Whiteface Mountain, NY
Sugar Valley Glades drops 1,458 vertical feet over 5,425 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 34° about 110 feet below the top. That's steeper than 41% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 7th steepest of 90 named runs at Whiteface Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Sugar Valley Glades gets about 102% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whiteface Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 51st sunniest named run at Whiteface Mountain. Its top sits at 3,250 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.