Black diamond Powder Mountain, UT
The Grinder, Switchback drops 7 vertical feet over 40 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 11° about 30 feet below the top. That's steeper than 1% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 204th steepest of 204 named runs at Powder Mountain. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 9°, The Grinder, Switchback gets about 121% of the winter sun that flat ground at Powder Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 88% of the runs we've measured, and the 25th 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.