Blue Grand Targhee, WY
Rock Garden drops 721 vertical feet over 2,595 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 270 feet below the top. That's steeper than 63% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 64th steepest of 83 named runs at Grand Targhee. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 16°, Rock Garden gets about 96% of the winter sun that flat ground at Grand Targhee does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 66th sunniest named run at Grand Targhee. Its top sits at 9,680 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.