Blue Breckenridge, CO
Northstar drops 735 vertical feet over 3,284 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 640 feet below the top. That's steeper than 52% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 152nd steepest of 207 named runs at Breckenridge. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, Northstar gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Breckenridge does, December through March. That's sunnier than 69% of the runs we've measured, and the 65th sunniest named run at Breckenridge. Its top sits at 10,980 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.