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Baby Powder

Blue Steamboat, CO

Steepest pitch14°
Vertical275 ft
Length2,029 ft
Average pitch8°
FacesS
Top9,685 ft

Baby Powder drops 275 vertical feet over 2,029 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 440 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 178th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces south.

How well Baby Powder holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 8°, Baby Powder gets about 121% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 9,680 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.

Baby Powder profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Baby Powder elsewhere

Nearby at Steamboat

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.