Black diamond Boreal, CA
Buck's Cutoff drops 242 vertical feet over 1,073 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 400 feet below the top. That's steeper than 66% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 4th steepest of 71 named runs at Boreal. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 13°, Buck's Cutoff gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Boreal does, December through March. That's sunnier than 71% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th sunniest named run at Boreal. Its top sits at 7,570 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.