Black diamond Homewood, CA
Ego Alley drops 837 vertical feet over 2,839 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 580 feet below the top. That's steeper than 66% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 8th steepest of 60 named runs at Homewood. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Ego Alley gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Homewood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 13th sunniest named run at Homewood. Its top sits at 7,870 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.