Blue Sandia Peak, NM
Exhibition drops 682 vertical feet over 3,126 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 300 feet below the top. That's steeper than 36% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 25th steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 13°, Exhibition gets about 77% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 60% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th shadiest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 10,260 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.