Blue Alpine Meadows, CA
Rock Garden drops 238 vertical feet over 1,486 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 540 feet below the top. That's steeper than 41% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 118th steepest of 132 named runs at Alpine Meadows. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 9°, Rock Garden gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Alpine Meadows does, December through March. That's sunnier than 71% of the runs we've measured, and the 46th sunniest named run at Alpine Meadows. Its top sits at 7,880 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.