Double black Crested Butte, CO
High Nowhere drops 210 vertical feet over 824 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 43° about 400 feet below the top. That's steeper than 84% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 37th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 16°, High Nowhere gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 33rd sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 11,380 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.