Green Angel Fire, NM
Rakes Rider Gully Cut drops 13 vertical feet over 335 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 9° about 310 feet below the top. That's steeper than 13% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 86th steepest of 88 named runs at Angel Fire. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 3°, Rakes Rider Gully Cut gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Angel Fire does, December through March. That's sunnier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Angel Fire. Its top sits at 10,450 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.