Unrated Telluride, CO
Lower Galloping Goose drops 42 vertical feet over 344 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 160 feet below the top. That's steeper than 53% of the 511 unrated runs we've measured in North America, and the 129th steepest of 137 named runs at Telluride. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 7°, Lower Galloping Goose gets about 88% of the winter sun that flat ground at Telluride does, December through March. That's sunnier than 58% of the runs we've measured, and the 33rd sunniest named run at Telluride. Its top sits at 9,210 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.