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S'Wonderful

Blue Wolf Creek, CO

Steepest pitch16°
Vertical187 ft
Length3,178 ft
Average pitch4°
FacesSE
Top10,585 ft

S'Wonderful drops 187 vertical feet over 3,178 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 15% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 109th steepest of 131 named runs at Wolf Creek. It faces southeast.

How well S'Wonderful holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing southeast at an average 4°, S'Wonderful gets about 108% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wolf Creek does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th sunniest named run at Wolf Creek. Its top sits at 10,580 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.

S'Wonderful profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like S'Wonderful elsewhere

Nearby at Wolf Creek

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.