Double black Breckenridge, CO
needles eye drops 497 vertical feet over 1,101 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 240 feet below the top. That's steeper than 57% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 34th steepest of 207 named runs at Breckenridge. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 28°, needles eye gets about 57% of the winter sun that flat ground at Breckenridge does, December through March. That's shadier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 19th shadiest named run at Breckenridge. Its top sits at 10,980 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.