Black diamond Lutsen Mountains, MN
Expert's Cutoff drops 298 vertical feet over 969 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 48% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 7th steepest of 87 named runs at Lutsen Mountains. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 18°, Expert's Cutoff gets about 134% of the winter sun that flat ground at Lutsen Mountains does, December through March. That's sunnier than 94% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Lutsen Mountains. Its top sits at 1,590 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.