Blue Boreal, CA
North Trail drops 253 vertical feet over 1,390 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 79% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 20th steepest of 71 named runs at Boreal. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 11°, North Trail gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Boreal does, December through March. That's sunnier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the 28th sunniest named run at Boreal. Its top sits at 7,510 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.