Blue Steamboat, CO
Buddy's Run Lower drops 906 vertical feet over 3,790 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 2,920 feet below the top. That's steeper than 71% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 95th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 14°, Buddy's Run Lower gets about 88% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 58% of the runs we've measured, and the 100th sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 9,890 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.