Black diamond Powder Mountain, UT
Switchback drops 1,797 vertical feet over 5,799 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 4,980 feet below the top. That's steeper than 87% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 31st steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 19°, Switchback gets about 118% 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 30th sunniest named run at Powder Mountain. Its top sits at 8,600 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.