Green Sierra-At-Tahoe, CA
Upper Snowshoe drops 261 vertical feet over 2,386 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 2,320 feet below the top. That's steeper than 30% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 47th steepest of 50 named runs at Sierra-At-Tahoe. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 6°, Upper Snowshoe gets about 111% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sierra-At-Tahoe does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Sierra-At-Tahoe. Its top sits at 8,800 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.