Green Crested Butte, CO
Big Al's drops 180 vertical feet over 1,167 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 650 feet below the top. That's steeper than 84% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 204th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 9°, Big Al's gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 34th sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 9,910 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.