Blue Arizona Snowbowl, AZ
Red Tail drops 438 vertical feet over 2,098 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 320 feet below the top. That's steeper than 24% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 35th steepest of 50 named runs at Arizona Snowbowl. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 12°, Red Tail gets about 108% of the winter sun that flat ground at Arizona Snowbowl does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Arizona Snowbowl. Its top sits at 10,050 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.