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Slow Poke

Double black Powder Mountain, UT

Steepest pitch19°
Vertical601 ft
Length6,028 ft
Average pitch6°
FacesSE
Top8,615 ft

Slow Poke drops 601 vertical feet over 6,028 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 5,260 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 180th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Slow Poke holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 6°, Slow Poke gets about 112% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 39th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,610 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.

Slow Poke profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Slow Poke 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.