Blue Lookout Pass, ID
Desperado drops 445 vertical feet over 1,803 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 400 feet below the top. That's steeper than 71% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 24th steepest of 49 named runs at Lookout Pass. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Desperado gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Lookout Pass does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 25th sunniest named run at Lookout Pass. Its top sits at 5,310 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.