Double black (off-piste) Purgatory, CO
Horbs drops 51 vertical feet over 463 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 10° about 260 feet below the top. That's steeper than 1% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 89th steepest of 90 named runs at Purgatory. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 6°, Horbs gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Purgatory does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Purgatory. Its top sits at 10,500 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.