Green Bluewood, WA
Nickel Bowl drops 364 vertical feet over 2,013 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 390 feet below the top. That's steeper than 75% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 35th steepest of 37 named runs at Bluewood. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 11°, Nickel Bowl gets about 116% of the winter sun that flat ground at Bluewood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Bluewood. Its top sits at 4,950 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.