Black diamond Lutsen Mountains, MN
Upper Grizzly drops 196 vertical feet over 797 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 530 feet below the top. That's steeper than 10% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 87 named runs at Lutsen Mountains. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 14°, Upper Grizzly gets about 129% of the winter sun that flat ground at Lutsen Mountains does, December through March. That's sunnier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Lutsen Mountains. Its top sits at 1,550 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.