Blue Powder Mountain, UT
Lightning Ridge drops 504 vertical feet over 3,548 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 2,810 feet below the top. That's steeper than 14% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 192nd steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 8°, Lightning Ridge gets about 115% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 34th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 9,010 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.
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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.