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Sun King

Blue Snowbasin, UT

Steepest pitch28°
Vertical608 ft
Length2,442 ft
Average pitch15°
FacesE
Top8,445 ft

Sun King drops 608 vertical feet over 2,442 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 500 feet below the top. That's steeper than 90% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 73rd steepest of 127 named runs at Snowbasin. It faces east.

How well Sun King holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 15°, Sun King gets about 110% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbasin does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Snowbasin. Its top sits at 8,440 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.

Sun King profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sun King elsewhere

Nearby at Snowbasin

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.