Green Sandia Peak, NM
Hups Upper drops 238 vertical feet over 1,759 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 50 feet below the top. That's steeper than 31% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 53rd steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 8°, Hups Upper gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 9,280 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.