Blue Silver Mountain, ID
Northern Lights drops 343 vertical feet over 962 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 35th steepest of 69 named runs at Silver Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 21°, Northern Lights gets about 106% of the winter sun that flat ground at Silver Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 77% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Silver Mountain. Its top sits at 5,820 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.