Green Bear Mountain, CA
Backdoors drops 53 vertical feet over 478 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 270 feet below the top. That's steeper than 35% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 24th steepest of 25 named runs at Bear Mountain. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 7°, Backdoors gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Bear Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 74% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Bear Mountain. Its top sits at 7,480 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.