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Cloud Kicker

Blue Powder Mountain, UT

Steepest pitch24°
Vertical476 ft
Length1,556 ft
Average pitch18°
FacesS
Top8,629 ft

Cloud Kicker drops 476 vertical feet over 1,556 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 600 feet below the top. That's steeper than 74% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 135th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces south.

How well Cloud Kicker holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 18°, Cloud Kicker gets about 138% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 95% of the runs we've measured, and the 8th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,630 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Cloud Kicker profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Cloud Kicker elsewhere

Nearby at Powder Mountain

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.