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Flintlock

Blue Steamboat, CO

Steepest pitch21°
Vertical1,148 ft
Length5,434 ft
Average pitch12°
FacesS
Top10,289 ft

Flintlock drops 1,148 vertical feet over 5,434 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 1,240 feet below the top. That's steeper than 48% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 119th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces south.

How well Flintlock holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 12°, Flintlock gets about 127% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 91% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 10,290 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.

Flintlock profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Flintlock 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.