Black diamond Deer Valley, UT
Welcome Stranger drops 508 vertical feet over 1,252 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 390 feet below the top. That's steeper than 35% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 99th steepest of 224 named runs at Deer Valley. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 24°, Welcome Stranger gets about 64% of the winter sun that flat ground at Deer Valley does, December through March. That's shadier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 38th shadiest named run at Deer Valley. Its top sits at 8,090 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.