Green Sandia Peak, NM
Upper Ramp drops 107 vertical feet over 491 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 460 feet below the top. That's steeper than 68% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 33rd steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, Upper Ramp gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 10,210 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.