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Aperture

Green Sundance, UT

Steepest pitch13°
Vertical111 ft
Length634 ft
Average pitch10°
FacesSE
Top6,650 ft

Aperture drops 111 vertical feet over 634 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 13° about 480 feet below the top. That's steeper than 41% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 62nd steepest of 66 named runs at Sundance. It faces southeast.

How well Aperture holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 10°, Aperture gets about 118% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sundance does, December through March. That's sunnier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Sundance. Its top sits at 6,650 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.

Aperture profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Aperture elsewhere

Nearby at Sundance

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.