Blue Snowmass, CO
Drumstick drops 226 vertical feet over 1,844 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 800 feet below the top. That's steeper than 12% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 122nd steepest of 126 named runs at Snowmass. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 7°, Drumstick gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowmass does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Snowmass. Its top sits at 9,870 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 USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.