Blue Snow Valley, CA
Richard's drops 240 vertical feet over 943 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 62% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 28 named runs at Snow Valley. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 15°, Richard's gets about 81% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snow Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 54% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th shadiest named run at Snow Valley. Its top sits at 7,590 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.