Blue Crested Butte, CO
Middle Gallowich drops 334 vertical feet over 1,212 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 510 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 148th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 16°, Middle Gallowich gets about 67% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's shadier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 32nd shadiest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 9,900 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.