Green Crested Butte, CO
Splains Gulch drops 329 vertical feet over 2,079 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 970 feet below the top. That's steeper than 66% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 215th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 9°, Splains Gulch gets about 118% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,140 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.