Black diamond Hoodoo, OR
Big Dipper drops 457 vertical feet over 2,581 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 2,130 feet below the top. That's steeper than 53% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 38 named runs at Hoodoo. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 10°, Big Dipper gets about 87% of the winter sun that flat ground at Hoodoo does, December through March. That's sunnier than 56% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Hoodoo. Its top sits at 5,150 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.