Black diamond Crystal Mountain, WA
Elevator Shaft drops 344 vertical feet over 607 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 50 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 48th steepest of 133 named runs at Crystal Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 35°, Elevator Shaft gets about 165% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crystal Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 100% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain. Its top sits at 6,530 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.