Blue Dodge Ridge, CA
Gentle Ben drops 238 vertical feet over 1,112 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 420 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 43rd steepest of 53 named runs at Dodge Ridge. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 12°, Gentle Ben gets about 70% of the winter sun that flat ground at Dodge Ridge does, December through March. That's shadier than 71% of the runs we've measured, and the 25th shadiest named run at Dodge Ridge. Its top sits at 6,820 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.