Double black Alpine Meadows, CA
The Buttress drops 472 vertical feet over 700 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 56° about 60 feet below the top. That's steeper than 100% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 1st steepest of 132 named runs at Alpine Meadows. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 43°, The Buttress gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Alpine Meadows does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 38th sunniest named run at Alpine Meadows. Its top sits at 7,820 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.