Black diamond Kirkwood, CA
Coyote drops 618 vertical feet over 1,618 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 44° about 190 feet below the top. That's steeper than 99% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 58 named runs at Kirkwood. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 23°, Coyote gets about 113% of the winter sun that flat ground at Kirkwood does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Kirkwood. Its top sits at 8,910 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 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.