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Flow

Black diamond Powder Mountain, UT

Steepest pitch29°
Vertical1,123 ft
Length3,950 ft
Average pitch17°
FacesW
Top8,503 ft

Flow drops 1,123 vertical feet over 3,950 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 1,200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 96th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces west.

How well Flow holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing west at an average 17°, Flow gets about 108% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 50th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,500 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.

Flow profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Flow elsewhere

Nearby at Powder Mountain

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.