Blue Homewood, CA
Cradle drops 310 vertical feet over 1,725 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 970 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 60 named runs at Homewood. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 11°, Cradle gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Homewood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 19th sunniest named run at Homewood. Its top sits at 7,190 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.