Black diamond Hoodoo, OR
Gripper drops 437 vertical feet over 1,409 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 790 feet below the top. That's steeper than 67% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 8th steepest of 38 named runs at Hoodoo. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 19°, Gripper gets about 119% of the winter sun that flat ground at Hoodoo does, December through March. That's sunnier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Hoodoo. Its top sits at 5,380 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.