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Lave View 1

Black diamond Powder Mountain, UT

Steepest pitch25°
Vertical536 ft
Length1,692 ft
Average pitch19°
FacesSE
Top8,460 ft

Lave View 1 drops 536 vertical feet over 1,692 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 1,290 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 131st steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Lave View 1 holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 19°, Lave View 1 gets about 119% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the 28th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,460 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.

Lave View 1 profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Lave View 1 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.