Blue Snowmass, CO
Pipeline drops 250 vertical feet over 746 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 340 feet below the top. That's steeper than 69% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 89th steepest of 126 named runs at Snowmass. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 20°, Pipeline gets about 122% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowmass does, December through March. That's sunnier than 88% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Snowmass. Its top sits at 10,460 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.
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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.