Black diamond Okemo, VT
Upper Chief drops 711 vertical feet over 2,502 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 1,090 feet below the top. That's steeper than 35% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 10th steepest of 124 named runs at Okemo. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Upper Chief gets about 111% of the winter sun that flat ground at Okemo does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 41st sunniest named run at Okemo. Its top sits at 3,110 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.