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Quickdraw

Blue Steamboat, CO

Steepest pitch27°
Vertical1,148 ft
Length5,901 ft
Average pitch11°
FacesS
Top10,288 ft

Quickdraw drops 1,148 vertical feet over 5,901 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 20 feet below the top. That's steeper than 88% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 68th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces south.

How well Quickdraw holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 11°, Quickdraw gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th 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.

Quickdraw profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Quickdraw 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.