Blue Tamarack, ID
Upper Encore drops 564 vertical feet over 2,428 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 1,270 feet below the top. That's steeper than 77% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 70 named runs at Tamarack. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Upper Encore gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Tamarack does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 50th sunniest named run at Tamarack. Its top sits at 5,830 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.