Black diamond Powder Mountain, UT
Showdown drops 558 vertical feet over 2,015 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 250 feet below the top. That's steeper than 60% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 81st steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 16°, Showdown gets about 78% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 59% of the runs we've measured, and the 85th shadiest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,620 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.