Black diamond Brundage, ID
Aspen Patch drops 214 vertical feet over 1,028 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 670 feet below the top. That's steeper than 2% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 66th steepest of 76 named runs at Brundage. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 12°, Aspen Patch gets about 115% of the winter sun that flat ground at Brundage does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th sunniest named run at Brundage. Its top sits at 7,010 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.