Blue Crystal Mountain, WA
Middle Sluiceway drops 79 vertical feet over 222 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 34° about 160 feet below the top. That's steeper than 99% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 70th steepest of 133 named runs at Crystal Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 21°, Middle Sluiceway gets about 140% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crystal Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 96% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain. Its top sits at 5,560 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.