Blue Deer Valley, UT
Nelles Loop drops 105 vertical feet over 760 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 120 feet below the top. That's steeper than 86% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 100th steepest of 224 named runs at Deer Valley. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 10°, Nelles Loop gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Deer Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 74% of the runs we've measured, and the 38th sunniest named run at Deer Valley. Its top sits at 7,360 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.