Blue Grand Targhee, WY
Painted Pony drops 439 vertical feet over 1,594 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 440 feet below the top. That's steeper than 86% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 48th steepest of 83 named runs at Grand Targhee. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 16°, Painted Pony gets about 135% of the winter sun that flat ground at Grand Targhee does, December through March. That's sunnier than 94% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th sunniest named run at Grand Targhee. Its top sits at 9,500 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.