Green Palisades Tahoe, CA
Mules Ear drops 261 vertical feet over 2,429 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 300 feet below the top. That's steeper than 53% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 103rd steepest of 115 named runs at Palisades Tahoe. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 6°, Mules Ear gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Palisades Tahoe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th sunniest named run at Palisades Tahoe. Its top sits at 8,280 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.