Blue Alta, UT
Waldron's Way drops 149 vertical feet over 1,436 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 630 feet below the top. That's steeper than 17% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 112th steepest of 117 named runs at Alta. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 6°, Waldron's Way gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Alta does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th sunniest named run at Alta. Its top sits at 10,380 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.