Green Telluride, CO
Lower Galloping Goose drops 789 vertical feet over 8,161 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 1,630 feet below the top. That's steeper than 98% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 94th steepest of 137 named runs at Telluride. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 6°, Lower Galloping Goose gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Telluride does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th sunniest named run at Telluride. Its top sits at 10,240 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.