Blue Arizona Snowbowl, AZ
Bear Alley drops 94 vertical feet over 521 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 260 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 44th steepest of 50 named runs at Arizona Snowbowl. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 10°, Bear Alley gets about 107% of the winter sun that flat ground at Arizona Snowbowl does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Arizona Snowbowl. Its top sits at 9,710 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.