Blue Wolf Creek, CO
Thumper drops 471 vertical feet over 1,998 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 1,270 feet below the top. That's steeper than 62% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 85th steepest of 131 named runs at Wolf Creek. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Thumper gets about 96% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wolf Creek does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Wolf Creek. Its top sits at 11,330 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.