Green Sandia Peak, NM
Ski Area Base drops 15 vertical feet over 578 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 5° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 3% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 58th steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 2°, Ski Area Base gets about 96% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 67% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 8,700 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.