Black diamond Sandia Peak, NM
Suicide drops 126 vertical feet over 386 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 34° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 81% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 2nd steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 20°, Suicide gets about 59% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's shadier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th shadiest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 8,840 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.