Green Diamond Peak, NV
School Yard drops 59 vertical feet over 816 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 5° about 330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 30th steepest of 30 named runs at Diamond Peak. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 4°, School Yard gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Diamond Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th sunniest named run at Diamond Peak. Its top sits at 6,790 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.