Blue Cuchara, CO
Devil's Stairsteps drops 549 vertical feet over 2,033 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 600 feet below the top. That's steeper than 91% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 7th steepest of 32 named runs at Cuchara. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Devil's Stairsteps gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cuchara does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Cuchara. Its top sits at 10,040 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.