Blue Telluride, CO
Cake Walk drops 386 vertical feet over 4,316 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 110 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 127th steepest of 137 named runs at Telluride. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 5°, Cake Walk gets about 102% of the winter sun that flat ground at Telluride does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Telluride. Its top sits at 10,440 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.