Blue Mission Ridge, WA
The Bypass drops 397 vertical feet over 2,577 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 2,050 feet below the top. That's steeper than 80% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 36th steepest of 55 named runs at Mission Ridge. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 10°, The Bypass gets about 129% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mission Ridge does, December through March. That's sunnier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Mission Ridge. Its top sits at 5,000 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.