Blue Winter Park, CO
Columbine Upper drops 119 vertical feet over 844 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 17% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 133rd steepest of 164 named runs at Winter Park. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 8°, Columbine Upper gets about 113% of the winter sun that flat ground at Winter Park does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Winter Park. Its top sits at 10,940 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.
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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.