Black diamond Boreal, CA
Mertyl's Cut-off drops 411 vertical feet over 1,625 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 890 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 47th steepest of 71 named runs at Boreal. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 15°, Mertyl's Cut-off gets about 80% of the winter sun that flat ground at Boreal does, December through March. That's shadier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 28th shadiest named run at Boreal. Its top sits at 7,620 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.