Blue Okemo, VT
Upper Sapphire drops 375 vertical feet over 1,623 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 980 feet below the top. That's steeper than 30% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 70th steepest of 124 named runs at Okemo. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 13°, Upper Sapphire gets about 79% of the winter sun that flat ground at Okemo does, December through March. That's shadier than 56% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th shadiest named run at Okemo. Its top sits at 3,060 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.