Green Grand Targhee, WY
North Pole drops 401 vertical feet over 3,006 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 980 feet below the top. That's steeper than 50% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 76th steepest of 83 named runs at Grand Targhee. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 8°, North Pole gets about 100% of the winter sun that flat ground at Grand Targhee does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 62nd sunniest named run at Grand Targhee. Its top sits at 8,320 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.