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Wapiti

Blue Steamboat, CO

Steepest pitch20°
Vertical200 ft
Length1,089 ft
Average pitch11°
FacesSW
Top9,219 ft

Wapiti drops 200 vertical feet over 1,089 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 240 feet below the top. That's steeper than 37% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 138th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces southwest.

How well Wapiti holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southwest at an average 11°, Wapiti gets about 115% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 34th sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 9,220 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.

Wapiti profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Wapiti 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.