Blue Kirkwood, CA
Easy Rider drops 290 vertical feet over 1,752 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 970 feet below the top. That's steeper than 42% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 47th steepest of 58 named runs at Kirkwood. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 10°, Easy Rider gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Kirkwood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th sunniest named run at Kirkwood. Its top sits at 8,620 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.