Black diamond Powder Mountain, UT
Pay Dirt drops 803 vertical feet over 3,023 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 1,030 feet below the top. That's steeper than 41% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 109th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 16°, Pay Dirt gets about 76% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 78th shadiest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,210 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.