Green Tamarack, ID
Shortcut drops 195 vertical feet over 1,333 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 490 feet below the top. That's steeper than 61% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 61st steepest of 70 named runs at Tamarack. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 9°, Shortcut gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Tamarack does, December through March. That's sunnier than 74% of the runs we've measured, and the 37th sunniest named run at Tamarack. Its top sits at 5,080 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.