Double black Alpine Meadows, CA
Middle Cirque drops 374 vertical feet over 759 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 170 feet below the top. That's steeper than 48% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 132 named runs at Alpine Meadows. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 30°, Middle Cirque gets about 115% of the winter sun that flat ground at Alpine Meadows does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th sunniest named run at Alpine Meadows. Its top sits at 8,270 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.