Blue Grand Targhee, WY
Big Thunder drops 656 vertical feet over 1,705 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 1,330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 91% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 37th steepest of 83 named runs at Grand Targhee. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 23°, Big Thunder gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Grand Targhee does, December through March. That's sunnier than 65% of the runs we've measured, and the 67th sunniest named run at Grand Targhee. Its top sits at 8,950 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.