Black diamond Buttermilk, CO
Sterner drops 947 vertical feet over 3,504 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 500 feet below the top. That's steeper than 18% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 9th steepest of 41 named runs at Buttermilk. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 16°, Sterner gets about 65% of the winter sun that flat ground at Buttermilk does, December through March. That's shadier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th shadiest named run at Buttermilk. Its top sits at 9,580 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 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.