Blue Bear Valley, CA
East Ridge drops 470 vertical feet over 3,052 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 300 feet below the top. That's steeper than 97% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 31st steepest of 74 named runs at Bear Valley. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 10°, East Ridge gets about 121% of the winter sun that flat ground at Bear Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 88% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Bear Valley. Its top sits at 8,130 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.