Double black Crystal Mountain, WA
Lower Employee Housing drops 401 vertical feet over 1,252 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 90 feet below the top. That's steeper than 17% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 99th steepest of 133 named runs at Crystal Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, Lower Employee Housing gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crystal Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 71st sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain. Its top sits at 4,640 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.