Blue Powder Mountain, UT
CRISPR drops 934 vertical feet over 4,436 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 800 feet below the top. That's steeper than 61% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 154th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 12°, CRISPR gets about 98% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 69% of the runs we've measured, and the 71st sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,230 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.