Black diamond Crystal Mountain, WA
Memorial Forest drops 648 vertical feet over 1,292 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 35° about 780 feet below the top. That's steeper than 83% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 68th steepest of 133 named runs at Crystal Mountain. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 30°, Memorial Forest gets about 175% 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 7th sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain. Its top sits at 6,210 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.