Blue Loup Loup, WA
Stairway drops 430 vertical feet over 1,398 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 130 feet below the top. That's steeper than 67% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 9th steepest of 15 named runs at Loup Loup. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 18°, Stairway gets about 57% of the winter sun that flat ground at Loup Loup does, December through March. That's shadier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th shadiest named run at Loup Loup. Its top sits at 4,620 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.