Green Mt Baldy, CA
Beginner's Gulch drops 224 vertical feet over 1,982 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 10° about 150 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 25th steepest of 26 named runs at Mt Baldy. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 7°, Beginner's Gulch gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mt Baldy does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 8th sunniest named run at Mt Baldy. Its top sits at 7,780 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.