Double black (off-piste) A-Basin, CO
Lightning Trees drops 365 vertical feet over 1,207 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 960 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 117th steepest of 161 named runs at A-Basin. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 18°, Lightning Trees gets about 80% of the winter sun that flat ground at A-Basin does, December through March. That's shadier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 101st shadiest named run at A-Basin. Its top sits at 11,540 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.