Blue Crested Butte, CO
Lower Canaan drops 131 vertical feet over 649 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 130 feet below the top. That's steeper than 45% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 194th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 12°, Lower Canaan gets about 72% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's shadier than 67% of the runs we've measured, and the 47th shadiest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,240 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 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.