Black diamond Palisades Tahoe, CA
Cushman's drops 322 vertical feet over 697 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 400 feet below the top. That's steeper than 77% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 115 named runs at Palisades Tahoe. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 28°, Cushman's gets about 78% of the winter sun that flat ground at Palisades Tahoe does, December through March. That's shadier than 58% of the runs we've measured, and the 68th shadiest named run at Palisades Tahoe. Its top sits at 7,070 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.