Blue Beaver Mountain, UT
Rock Garden drops 181 vertical feet over 627 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 190 feet below the top. That's steeper than 56% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 32nd steepest of 48 named runs at Beaver Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Rock Garden gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Beaver Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Beaver Mountain. Its top sits at 7,540 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.