Green Palisades Tahoe, CA
Start Me Up drops 23 vertical feet over 211 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 10° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 19% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 115th steepest of 115 named runs at Palisades Tahoe. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 6°, Start Me Up gets about 85% of the winter sun that flat ground at Palisades Tahoe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 53% of the runs we've measured, and the 33rd sunniest named run at Palisades Tahoe. Its top sits at 6,220 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.