Double black (extreme) Crested Butte, CO
Banana drops 1,063 vertical feet over 2,206 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 1,050 feet below the top. That's steeper than 47% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 116th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 29°, Banana gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 11,330 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.