Black diamond Kirkwood, CA
Lightning drops 934 vertical feet over 2,690 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 16th steepest of 58 named runs at Kirkwood. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 21°, Lightning gets about 80% of the winter sun that flat ground at Kirkwood does, December through March. That's shadier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 35th shadiest named run at Kirkwood. Its top sits at 9,030 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.