Black diamond Deer Valley, UT
Orient Express drops 1,267 vertical feet over 3,365 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 570 feet below the top. That's steeper than 67% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 50th steepest of 224 named runs at Deer Valley. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 22°, Orient Express gets about 83% of the winter sun that flat ground at Deer Valley does, December through March. That's sunnier than 51% of the runs we've measured, and the 105th sunniest named run at Deer Valley. Its top sits at 8,820 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.