Black diamond 49 Degrees North, WA
Pipeline drops 844 vertical feet over 3,148 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 450 feet below the top. That's steeper than 31% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 38th steepest of 83 named runs at 49 Degrees North. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Pipeline gets about 118% of the winter sun that flat ground at 49 Degrees North does, December through March. That's sunnier than 85% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at 49 Degrees North. Its top sits at 5,170 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.