Blue Heavenly, CA
Von Schmidt drops 346 vertical feet over 4,420 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 300 feet below the top. That's steeper than 32% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 99th steepest of 124 named runs at Heavenly. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 5°, Von Schmidt gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Heavenly does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Heavenly. Its top sits at 9,470 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.