Black diamond Devils Head, WI
The Serpent drops 489 vertical feet over 2,767 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 18° about 2,010 feet below the top. That's steeper than 5% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 19 named runs at Devils Head. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 10°, The Serpent gets about 124% of the winter sun that flat ground at Devils Head does, December through March. That's sunnier than 89% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Devils Head. Its top sits at 1,420 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.
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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.