Black diamond Sandia Peak, NM
Diablo drops 797 vertical feet over 3,729 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 3,500 feet below the top. That's steeper than 13% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 18th steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Diablo gets about 90% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 60% of the runs we've measured, and the 24th sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 10,130 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.