Blue Keystone, CO
The Willows drops 397 vertical feet over 4,553 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 470 feet below the top. That's steeper than 11% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 128th steepest of 140 named runs at Keystone. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 5°, The Willows gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Keystone does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 54th sunniest named run at Keystone. Its top sits at 10,840 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.