Black diamond Crystal Mountain, WA
Upper Northway drops 497 vertical feet over 1,714 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 30 feet below the top. That's steeper than 86% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 64th steepest of 133 named runs at Crystal Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 17°, Upper Northway gets about 82% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crystal Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 51% of the runs we've measured, and the 48th shadiest named run at Crystal Mountain. Its top sits at 6,560 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.