Blue Sierra-At-Tahoe, CA
Lower Castle drops 109 vertical feet over 372 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 240 feet below the top. That's steeper than 42% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 30th steepest of 50 named runs at Sierra-At-Tahoe. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 17°, Lower Castle gets about 87% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sierra-At-Tahoe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 57% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th sunniest named run at Sierra-At-Tahoe. Its top sits at 7,510 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 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.