Blue Sun Valley, ID
Hour Glass drops 386 vertical feet over 1,179 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 810 feet below the top. That's steeper than 80% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 65th steepest of 99 named runs at Sun Valley. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 19°, Hour Glass gets about 55% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sun Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 89% of the runs we've measured, and the 40th shadiest named run at Sun Valley. Its top sits at 7,790 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.