Black diamond Deer Valley, UT
Cataract drops 824 vertical feet over 1,904 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 1,110 feet below the top. That's steeper than 92% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 224 named runs at Deer Valley. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 26°, Cataract gets about 85% of the winter sun that flat ground at Deer Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 53% of the runs we've measured, and the 94th sunniest named run at Deer Valley. Its top sits at 9,000 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.