Blue Lookout Pass, ID
Gold drops 354 vertical feet over 1,648 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 1,590 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 49 named runs at Lookout Pass. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Gold gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Lookout Pass does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Lookout Pass. Its top sits at 5,180 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.