Blue Telluride, CO
Smuggler drops 476 vertical feet over 1,822 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 1,080 feet below the top. That's steeper than 76% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 97th steepest of 137 named runs at Telluride. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 15°, Smuggler gets about 98% of the winter sun that flat ground at Telluride does, December through March. That's sunnier than 69% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Telluride. Its top sits at 10,550 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.