Black diamond Crested Butte, CO
Middle Championship drops 212 vertical feet over 1,180 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 50 feet below the top. That's steeper than 15% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 176th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 11°, Middle Championship gets about 115% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 83% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 9,960 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.