Green Steamboat, CO
Why Not Upper drops 699 vertical feet over 6,873 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 1,270 feet below the top. That's steeper than 33% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 186th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 6°, Why Not Upper gets about 78% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's shadier than 57% of the runs we've measured, and the 56th shadiest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 9,050 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.