Blue Sipapu, NM
Smart Chicken drops 160 vertical feet over 1,124 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 24% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 38th steepest of 44 named runs at Sipapu. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 8°, Smart Chicken gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sipapu does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Sipapu. Its top sits at 9,260 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.