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Sugar Pine

Blue Mt Shasta, CA

Steepest pitch23°
Vertical711 ft
Length2,675 ft
Average pitch16°
FacesS
Top6,871 ft

Sugar Pine drops 711 vertical feet over 2,675 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 1,050 feet below the top. That's steeper than 59% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 20th steepest of 34 named runs at Mt Shasta. It faces south.

How well Sugar Pine holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 16°, Sugar Pine gets about 129% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mt Shasta does, December through March. That's sunnier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Mt Shasta. Its top sits at 6,870 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.

Sugar Pine profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sugar Pine elsewhere

Nearby at Mt Shasta

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.