Blue Silver Mountain, ID
Shortcut drops 159 vertical feet over 917 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 27% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 60th steepest of 69 named runs at Silver Mountain. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 10°, Shortcut gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Silver Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Silver Mountain. Its top sits at 5,670 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.