Blue Bear Mountain, CA
Silver Connection drops 357 vertical feet over 1,691 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 41% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 15th steepest of 25 named runs at Bear Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Silver Connection gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Bear Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Bear Mountain. Its top sits at 7,880 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.