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Porcupine Pass at Whiteface Mountain Ski Area

Easy · 229 m long with 38 m of vertical, averaging 9° and 12° at its steepest, facing S.

12°steepest 50 m
9°average pitch
229 mlength
38 mvertical
435 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

Porcupine Pass is equator-facing: the sunniest aspect, softens earliest and suffers most in warm spells.

Grooming: classic.

How to get to Porcupine Pass

Lifts that reach the top: Falcon Flyer (skiing easy terrain to get there); The Notch (skiing easy terrain to get there); Face Lift (skiing easy terrain to get there); Lookout Mountain Triple (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Little Whiteface (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Cloudsplitter Gondola (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 4 minutes, easy skiing needed):

  1. Ride Falcon Flyer
  2. Ski Loon (easy)
  3. Ski Moose (easy)
  4. Ski Porcupine Pass (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Brookside, Boreen. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Face Lift (1 min), Cloudsplitter Gondola (2 min), Warhorse (3 min).

See Porcupine Pass on the 3D mapAll runs at Whiteface Mountain Ski Area
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.