Blue Angel Fire, NM
Lower Nice Day drops 188 vertical feet over 733 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 82% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 20th steepest of 88 named runs at Angel Fire. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 15°, Lower Nice Day gets about 66% of the winter sun that flat ground at Angel Fire does, December through March. That's shadier than 77% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th shadiest named run at Angel Fire. Its top sits at 9,930 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.