Black diamond Buttermilk, CO
Spruce drops 193 vertical feet over 1,127 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 350 feet below the top. That's steeper than 3% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 34th steepest of 41 named runs at Buttermilk. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 10°, Spruce gets about 81% of the winter sun that flat ground at Buttermilk does, December through March. That's shadier than 53% of the runs we've measured, and the 24th shadiest named run at Buttermilk. Its top sits at 8,330 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 USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.