Black diamond Sandia Peak, NM
Greg's drops 130 vertical feet over 337 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 90 feet below the top. That's steeper than 63% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 23°, Greg's gets about 48% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 94% of the runs we've measured, and the shadiest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 9,000 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.