Black diamond Crested Butte, CO
Horseshoe Springs drops 363 vertical feet over 1,485 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 35° about 420 feet below the top. That's steeper than 85% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 120th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 15°, Horseshoe Springs gets about 74% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's shadier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 54th shadiest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,660 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 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.