Black diamond Bogus Basin, ID
Mother Lode drops 613 vertical feet over 2,420 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 2,190 feet below the top. That's steeper than 67% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 10th steepest of 98 named runs at Bogus Basin. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 15°, Mother Lode gets about 131% of the winter sun that flat ground at Bogus Basin does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Bogus Basin. Its top sits at 6,420 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.