Blue Cuchara, CO
Smoke Out drops 336 vertical feet over 1,761 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 1,690 feet below the top. That's steeper than 71% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 15th steepest of 32 named runs at Cuchara. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 11°, Smoke Out gets about 124% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cuchara does, December through March. That's sunnier than 89% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Cuchara. Its top sits at 10,400 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.