Blue Alpine Meadows, CA
Sunspot drops 407 vertical feet over 1,083 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 300 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 87th steepest of 132 named runs at Alpine Meadows. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 22°, Sunspot gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Alpine Meadows does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 40th sunniest named run at Alpine Meadows. Its top sits at 8,350 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.