Blue Snow Summit, CA
Pipe Dream drops 237 vertical feet over 889 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 60 feet below the top. That's steeper than 59% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 27 named runs at Snow Summit. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 16°, Pipe Dream gets about 70% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snow Summit does, December through March. That's shadier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th shadiest named run at Snow Summit. Its top sits at 7,230 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.