Black diamond Mt Lemmon, AZ
The Shaft drops 88 vertical feet over 267 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 30 feet below the top. That's steeper than 33% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 21 named runs at Mt Lemmon. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 19°, The Shaft gets about 55% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mt Lemmon does, December through March. That's shadier than 89% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd shadiest named run at Mt Lemmon. Its top sits at 8,780 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.