Blue Soldier Mountain, ID
Claude Buster drops 342 vertical feet over 1,110 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 520 feet below the top. That's steeper than 88% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 15th steepest of 41 named runs at Soldier Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 18°, Claude Buster gets about 110% of the winter sun that flat ground at Soldier Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Soldier Mountain. Its top sits at 7,060 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 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.