Blue Buttermilk, CO
Bear drops 598 vertical feet over 3,544 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 1,730 feet below the top. That's steeper than 33% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 23rd steepest of 41 named runs at Buttermilk. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 10°, Bear gets about 72% of the winter sun that flat ground at Buttermilk does, December through March. That's shadier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th shadiest named run at Buttermilk. Its top sits at 8,930 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.