Blue Crested Butte, CO
Upper Canaan drops 260 vertical feet over 1,086 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 50% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 186th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 14°, Upper Canaan gets about 72% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's shadier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 44th shadiest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,770 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.