Blue Sun Valley, ID
Christmas Ridge drops 1,171 vertical feet over 2,934 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 2,400 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 43rd steepest of 99 named runs at Sun Valley. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 24°, Christmas Ridge gets about 116% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sun Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Sun Valley. Its top sits at 9,030 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.
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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.