Double black Mission Ridge, WA
Jackson's drops 711 vertical feet over 2,328 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 720 feet below the top. That's steeper than 54% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 10th steepest of 55 named runs at Mission Ridge. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 19°, Jackson's gets about 127% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mission Ridge does, December through March. That's sunnier than 91% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th sunniest named run at Mission Ridge. Its top sits at 5,840 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.