Blue Sandia Peak, NM
La Madera drops 576 vertical feet over 2,635 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 310 feet below the top. That's steeper than 62% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 16th steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 13°, La Madera gets about 86% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 32nd sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 10,260 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.