Blue Grand Targhee, WY
Jack Straw drops 1,667 vertical feet over 5,639 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 4,020 feet below the top. That's steeper than 79% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 60th steepest of 83 named runs at Grand Targhee. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 17°, Jack Straw gets about 127% of the winter sun that flat ground at Grand Targhee does, December through March. That's sunnier than 91% of the runs we've measured, and the 19th sunniest named run at Grand Targhee. Its top sits at 9,670 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.