Black diamond Schweitzer, ID
Trial Run drops 420 vertical feet over 1,169 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 550 feet below the top. That's steeper than 53% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 49th steepest of 98 named runs at Schweitzer. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 21°, Trial Run gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Schweitzer does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 49th sunniest named run at Schweitzer. Its top sits at 5,730 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. 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.