Blue Powder Mountain, UT
Illusion drops 401 vertical feet over 1,867 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 1,380 feet below the top. That's steeper than 46% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 168th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, Illusion gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 59th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,650 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.