Blue Crystal Mountain Mi, MI
Interlochen Arts Ave drops 163 vertical feet over 1,187 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 450 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 44th steepest of 52 named runs at Crystal Mountain Mi. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 8°, Interlochen Arts Ave gets about 122% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crystal Mountain Mi does, December through March. That's sunnier than 88% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain Mi. Its top sits at 1,030 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.