Blue Lutsen Mountains, MN
First Cut drops 43 vertical feet over 475 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 11° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 83rd steepest of 87 named runs at Lutsen Mountains. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 5°, First Cut gets about 120% of the winter sun that flat ground at Lutsen Mountains does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 46th sunniest named run at Lutsen Mountains. Its top sits at 1,260 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.
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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.