Blue Copper, CO
Pine Cone Alley drops 234 vertical feet over 1,382 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 180 feet below the top. That's steeper than 22% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 119th steepest of 141 named runs at Copper. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 10°, Pine Cone Alley gets about 78% of the winter sun that flat ground at Copper does, December through March. That's shadier than 58% of the runs we've measured, and the 89th shadiest named run at Copper. Its top sits at 10,370 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.