Black diamond Sandia Peak, NM
Do Drop In drops 111 vertical feet over 299 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 120 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 22°, Do Drop In gets about 83% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 50% of the runs we've measured, and the 22nd shadiest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 9,630 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.