Double black Aspen Highlands, CO
No Name (Highlands) drops 768 vertical feet over 2,596 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 45° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 90% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 4th steepest of 104 named runs at Aspen Highlands. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 21°, No Name (Highlands) gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Aspen Highlands does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 23rd sunniest named run at Aspen Highlands. Its top sits at 11,250 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.