Black diamond Kirkwood, CA
Larry's Lip drops 648 vertical feet over 2,068 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 77% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 26th steepest of 58 named runs at Kirkwood. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, Larry's Lip gets about 82% of the winter sun that flat ground at Kirkwood does, December through March. That's shadier than 51% of the runs we've measured, and the 45th shadiest named run at Kirkwood. Its top sits at 9,650 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 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.