Double black (off-piste) Alpine Meadows, CA
Clear Gully Open Slope drops 146 vertical feet over 199 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 48° about 30 feet below the top. That's steeper than 95% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 9th steepest of 132 named runs at Alpine Meadows. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 48°, Clear Gully Open Slope gets about 38% of the winter sun that flat ground at Alpine Meadows does, December through March. That's shadier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the 19th shadiest named run at Alpine Meadows. Its top sits at 7,940 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.