Black diamond Powder Mountain, UT
Sounder Ridge drops 589 vertical feet over 1,434 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 240 feet below the top. That's steeper than 66% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 70th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 25°, Sounder Ridge 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 49th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,360 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.
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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.