Blue Crystal Mountain Mi, MI
Canyon drops 242 vertical feet over 1,524 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 120 feet below the top. That's steeper than 17% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 28th steepest of 52 named runs at Crystal Mountain Mi. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 9°, Canyon gets about 117% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crystal Mountain Mi does, December through March. That's sunnier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain Mi. Its top sits at 1,040 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.