Double black Heavenly, CA
Rim Trail drops 216 vertical feet over 2,447 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 900 feet below the top. That's steeper than 13% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 68th steepest of 124 named runs at Heavenly. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 7°, Rim Trail gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Heavenly does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 30th sunniest named run at Heavenly. Its top sits at 8,420 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.