Double black Aspen Highlands, CO
Hot Y's (Y-3 to Y-8) drops 677 vertical feet over 1,611 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 41° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 77% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 19th steepest of 104 named runs at Aspen Highlands. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 25°, Hot Y's (Y-3 to Y-8) gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Aspen Highlands does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Aspen Highlands. Its top sits at 11,430 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.