Blue Deer Valley, UT
Reliance drops 276 vertical feet over 1,460 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 580 feet below the top. That's steeper than 63% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 140th steepest of 224 named runs at Deer Valley. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 11°, Reliance gets about 107% of the winter sun that flat ground at Deer Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 77% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th sunniest named run at Deer Valley. Its top sits at 9,360 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.