Black diamond Mountain High, CA
Wildfire drops 124 vertical feet over 380 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 31% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 37 named runs at Mountain High. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, Wildfire gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mountain High does, December through March. That's sunnier than 65% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Mountain High. Its top sits at 7,660 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.