Black diamond Mt Baldy, CA
Herb's Hollow drops 423 vertical feet over 964 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 60 feet below the top. That's steeper than 89% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 26 named runs at Mt Baldy. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 26°, Herb's Hollow gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mt Baldy does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Mt Baldy. Its top sits at 8,270 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.