Black diamond Buttermilk, CO
Spruce Face drops 254 vertical feet over 1,227 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 810 feet below the top. That's steeper than 22% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 41 named runs at Buttermilk. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 12°, Spruce Face gets about 84% of the winter sun that flat ground at Buttermilk does, December through March. That's sunnier than 52% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Buttermilk. Its top sits at 8,140 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.