Blue Wolf Creek, CO
Snow Shoe drops 157 vertical feet over 1,246 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 530 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 117th steepest of 131 named runs at Wolf Creek. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 7°, Snow Shoe gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wolf Creek does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Wolf Creek. Its top sits at 10,990 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.