Blue Deer Valley, UT
Orion drops 1,215 vertical feet over 5,750 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 1,130 feet below the top. That's steeper than 87% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 97th steepest of 224 named runs at Deer Valley. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Orion gets about 101% of the winter sun that flat ground at Deer Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 46th sunniest named run at Deer Valley. Its top sits at 9,550 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.