Blue Kirkwood, CA
Flying Carpet drops 523 vertical feet over 2,509 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 1,380 feet below the top. That's steeper than 69% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 41st steepest of 58 named runs at Kirkwood. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 12°, Flying Carpet gets about 109% of the winter sun that flat ground at Kirkwood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Kirkwood. Its top sits at 8,610 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.