Black diamond Crested Butte, CO
Gully Glades drops 438 vertical feet over 1,420 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 240 feet below the top. That's steeper than 46% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 149th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 18°, Gully Glades gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,070 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.