Unrated Sipapu, NM
The Playground drops 140 vertical feet over 777 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 270 feet below the top. That's steeper than 74% of the 511 unrated runs we've measured in North America, and the 35th steepest of 44 named runs at Sipapu. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 11°, The Playground gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sipapu does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Sipapu. Its top sits at 9,040 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.