Blue Tamarack, ID
Half Pipe drops 284 vertical feet over 1,630 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 43% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 49th steepest of 70 named runs at Tamarack. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 10°, Half Pipe gets about 113% of the winter sun that flat ground at Tamarack does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 17th sunniest named run at Tamarack. Its top sits at 5,280 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.