Black diamond Sandia Peak, NM
Upper Diablo drops 74 vertical feet over 453 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 12° about 200 feet below the top. That's steeper than 1% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 59 named runs at Sandia Peak. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 9°, Upper Diablo gets about 90% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sandia Peak does, December through March. That's sunnier than 59% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th sunniest named run at Sandia Peak. Its top sits at 9,660 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.