Black diamond Sipapu, NM
Gamble Trees drops 219 vertical feet over 795 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 590 feet below the top. That's steeper than 17% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 17th steepest of 44 named runs at Sipapu. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Gamble Trees gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sipapu does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th sunniest named run at Sipapu. Its top sits at 9,250 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.