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Quicksilver

Blue Lookout Pass, ID

Steepest pitch18°
Vertical460 ft
Length4,768 ft
Average pitch6°
FacesSE
Top5,227 ft

Quicksilver drops 460 vertical feet over 4,768 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 24% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 41st steepest of 49 named runs at Lookout Pass. It faces southeast.

How well Quicksilver holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 6°, Quicksilver gets about 117% of the winter sun that flat ground at Lookout Pass does, December through March. That's sunnier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 13th sunniest named run at Lookout Pass. Its top sits at 5,230 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.

Quicksilver profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Quicksilver elsewhere

Nearby at Lookout Pass

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.