Black diamond Homewood, CA
White Lightning drops 346 vertical feet over 1,069 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 870 feet below the top. That's steeper than 40% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 20th steepest of 60 named runs at Homewood. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, White Lightning gets about 102% of the winter sun that flat ground at Homewood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Homewood. Its top sits at 7,820 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.