Blue Pomerelle, ID
Ponderosa drops 175 vertical feet over 1,080 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 890 feet below the top. That's steeper than 34% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 33 named runs at Pomerelle. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 9°, Ponderosa gets about 95% of the winter sun that flat ground at Pomerelle does, December through March. That's sunnier than 66% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Pomerelle. Its top sits at 8,060 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.