Black diamond Crystal Mountain Mi, MI
Norm's Way drops 147 vertical feet over 656 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 60 feet below the top. That's steeper than 16% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 9th steepest of 52 named runs at Crystal Mountain Mi. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 13°, Norm's Way gets about 121% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crystal Mountain Mi does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 8th sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain Mi. Its top sits at 1,120 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.