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Sunny Side

Blue Powder Mountain, UT

Steepest pitch21°
Vertical507 ft
Length3,196 ft
Average pitch9°
FacesS
Top8,678 ft

Sunny Side drops 507 vertical feet over 3,196 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 1,710 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 south.

How well Sunny Side holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 9°, Sunny Side gets about 127% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 91% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,680 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.

Sunny Side profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sunny Side 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.