Blue Soldier Mountain, ID
Doran's Drop drops 522 vertical feet over 1,932 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 170 feet below the top. That's steeper than 92% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 41 named runs at Soldier Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Doran's Drop gets about 98% of the winter sun that flat ground at Soldier Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the 13th sunniest named run at Soldier Mountain. Its top sits at 6,640 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 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.