Blue Brighton, UT
Golden Needle drops 465 vertical feet over 1,678 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 59% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 57 named runs at Brighton. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 16°, Golden Needle gets about 112% of the winter sun that flat ground at Brighton does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Brighton. Its top sits at 9,720 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.