Blue Okemo, VT
Lower Sapphire drops 594 vertical feet over 2,446 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 490 feet below the top. That's steeper than 69% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 23rd steepest of 124 named runs at Okemo. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Lower Sapphire gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Okemo does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 86th sunniest named run at Okemo. Its top sits at 2,690 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.