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Penny Dawgs

Double black Crystal Mountain, WA

Steepest pitch45°
Vertical372 ft
Length698 ft
Average pitch33°
FacesE
Top6,298 ft

Penny Dawgs drops 372 vertical feet over 698 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 45° about 480 feet below the top. That's steeper than 90% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 133 named runs at Crystal Mountain. It faces east.

How well Penny Dawgs holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing east at an average 33°, Penny Dawgs gets about 113% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crystal Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 50th sunniest named run at Crystal Mountain. Its top sits at 6,300 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.

Penny Dawgs profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Penny Dawgs elsewhere

Nearby at Crystal Mountain

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.