Blue Heavenly, CA
Aries drops 243 vertical feet over 1,121 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 360 feet below the top. That's steeper than 48% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 87th steepest of 124 named runs at Heavenly. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, Aries gets about 100% of the winter sun that flat ground at Heavenly does, December through March. That's sunnier than 71% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th sunniest named run at Heavenly. Its top sits at 9,510 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.