Green Steamboat, CO
South Peak flats drops 109 vertical feet over 1,102 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 11° about 700 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 190th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 6°, South Peak flats gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 93rd sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 9,370 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.