Blue Tamarack, ID
Ladle drops 172 vertical feet over 1,203 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 1,170 feet below the top. That's steeper than 17% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 60th steepest of 70 named runs at Tamarack. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 8°, Ladle gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Tamarack does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 59th sunniest named run at Tamarack. Its top sits at 7,170 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.