Double black (off-piste) Alpine Meadows, CA
Dogleg drops 316 vertical feet over 589 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 41° about 190 feet below the top. That's steeper than 76% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 30th steepest of 132 named runs at Alpine Meadows. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 33°, Dogleg gets about 95% of the winter sun that flat ground at Alpine Meadows does, December through March. That's sunnier than 66% of the runs we've measured, and the 50th sunniest named run at Alpine Meadows. Its top sits at 8,450 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.