Black diamond Big Powderhorn, MI
Vertical Drop drops 125 vertical feet over 630 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 300 feet below the top. That's steeper than 3% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 29th steepest of 45 named runs at Big Powderhorn. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Vertical Drop gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Powderhorn does, December through March. That's sunnier than 69% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Big Powderhorn. Its top sits at 1,550 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.