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Duck Soup

Green Willamette, OR

Steepest pitch14°
Vertical754 ft
Length5,523 ft
Average pitch8°
FacesSW
Top5,893 ft

Duck Soup drops 754 vertical feet over 5,523 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 25th steepest of 30 named runs at Willamette. It faces southwest.

How well Duck Soup holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southwest at an average 8°, Duck Soup gets about 111% of the winter sun that flat ground at Willamette does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 19th sunniest named run at Willamette. Its top sits at 5,890 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Duck Soup profile

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Where it is on the mountain

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Nearby at Willamette

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.