Green Crested Butte, CO
Houston drops 706 vertical feet over 6,733 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 3,540 feet below the top. That's steeper than 36% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 223rd steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 6°, Houston gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 30th sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,250 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.