Unrated Mt Ashland, OR
Blossom drops 81 vertical feet over 839 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 810 feet below the top. That's steeper than 52% of the 511 unrated runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 40 named runs at Mt Ashland. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 6°, Blossom gets about 129% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mt Ashland does, December through March. That's sunnier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Mt Ashland. Its top sits at 6,700 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.