Blue Sandia Peak, NM
Foster Murphy Lower drops 255 vertical feet over 1,352 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 520 feet below the top. That's steeper than 15% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 11°, Foster Murphy Lower gets about 90% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 59% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 9,150 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.