Black diamond Boreal, CA
Starr's Route drops 276 vertical feet over 1,315 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 70 feet below the top. That's steeper than 29% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 19th steepest of 71 named runs at Boreal. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 12°, Starr's Route gets about 79% of the winter sun that flat ground at Boreal does, December through March. That's shadier than 57% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th shadiest named run at Boreal. Its top sits at 7,420 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.