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Sunny Side

Blue Snowbasin, UT

Steepest pitch28°
Vertical350 ft
Length1,470 ft
Average pitch14°
FacesSE
Top7,917 ft

Sunny Side drops 350 vertical feet over 1,470 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 92% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 68th steepest of 127 named runs at Snowbasin. It faces southeast.

How well Sunny Side holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 14°, Sunny Side gets about 136% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbasin does, December through March. That's sunnier than 95% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Snowbasin. Its top sits at 7,920 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.

Sunny Side profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sunny Side 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.