Blue Eldora, CO
Pipeline drops 227 vertical feet over 3,052 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 3,020 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 54th steepest of 58 named runs at Eldora. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 4°, Pipeline gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Eldora does, December through March. That's sunnier than 74% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Eldora. Its top sits at 10,570 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.