Blue Sandia Peak, NM
Foster Murphy Cutoff drops 135 vertical feet over 678 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 12% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 43rd steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 12°, Foster Murphy Cutoff gets about 86% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 54% of the runs we've measured, and the 33rd sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 9,090 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.