Blue Sandia Peak, NM
Lift 2 Off Ramp drops 4 vertical feet over 56 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 4° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 0% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 59th steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 4°, Lift 2 Off Ramp gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 10,280 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.