Blue Palisades Tahoe, CA
Mountain Run drops 1,791 vertical feet over 11,498 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 3,750 feet below the top. That's steeper than 57% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 84th steepest of 115 named runs at Palisades Tahoe. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 9°, Mountain Run gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Palisades Tahoe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th sunniest named run at Palisades Tahoe. Its top sits at 8,020 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.