Black diamond Crested Butte, CO
Upper Championship drops 190 vertical feet over 568 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 168th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 20°, Upper Championship gets about 106% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 77% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,150 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.