Blue Schweitzer, ID
Lower Loophole drops 590 vertical feet over 3,117 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 38% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 80th steepest of 98 named runs at Schweitzer. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 11°, Lower Loophole gets about 140% of the winter sun that flat ground at Schweitzer does, December through March. That's sunnier than 96% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Schweitzer. Its top sits at 5,090 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. 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.