Black diamond Lookout Pass, ID
Buffalo Gulch drops 686 vertical feet over 2,133 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 1,380 feet below the top. That's steeper than 60% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 4th steepest of 49 named runs at Lookout Pass. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 19°, Buffalo Gulch gets about 158% of the winter sun that flat ground at Lookout Pass does, December through March. That's sunnier than 99% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Lookout Pass. Its top sits at 5,200 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.