Blue Palisades Tahoe, CA
Mainline drops 485 vertical feet over 2,469 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 950 feet below the top. That's steeper than 94% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 57th steepest of 115 named runs at Palisades Tahoe. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Mainline gets about 98% of the winter sun that flat ground at Palisades Tahoe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Palisades Tahoe. Its top sits at 8,440 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.