Black diamond Crested Butte, CO
Upper International drops 811 vertical feet over 2,722 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 920 feet below the top. That's steeper than 40% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 154th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 18°, Upper International gets about 80% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's shadier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 70th shadiest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,960 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.