Double black Crystal Mountain, WA
Melby's drops 326 vertical feet over 543 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 42° about 340 feet below the top. That's steeper than 81% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 19th steepest of 133 named runs at Crystal Mountain. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 37°, Melby's gets about 186% 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 sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain. Its top sits at 6,030 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.