Blue Homewood, CA
Lower Ego Alley drops 213 vertical feet over 1,564 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 410 feet below the top. That's steeper than 16% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 57th steepest of 60 named runs at Homewood. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 8°, Lower Ego Alley gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Homewood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 65% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th sunniest named run at Homewood. Its top sits at 7,030 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.