Blue Vail, CO
Ranger Racoon's Escape drops 314 vertical feet over 1,385 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 790 feet below the top. That's steeper than 61% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 140th steepest of 194 named runs at Vail. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 13°, Ranger Racoon's Escape gets about 86% of the winter sun that flat ground at Vail does, December through March. That's sunnier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 77th sunniest named run at Vail. Its top sits at 9,220 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.