Green Kirkwood, CA
Graduation drops 180 vertical feet over 1,900 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 1,550 feet below the top. That's steeper than 37% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 57th steepest of 58 named runs at Kirkwood. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 6°, Graduation gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Kirkwood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Kirkwood. Its top sits at 8,000 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.