Black diamond Wildcat Mountain, NH
Lower-Catenary drops 127 vertical feet over 468 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 27% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 49 named runs at Wildcat Mountain. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 16°, Lower-Catenary gets about 63% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wildcat Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th shadiest named run at Wildcat Mountain. Its top sits at 2,070 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.