Blue Crested Butte, CO
Buckley drops 469 vertical feet over 1,939 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 47% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 192nd steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 14°, Buckley gets about 96% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 67% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 9,750 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.