Black diamond Sipapu, NM
Jimmy Drop drops 233 vertical feet over 905 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 21% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 44 named runs at Sipapu. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 15°, Jimmy Drop gets about 84% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sipapu does, December through March. That's sunnier than 52% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Sipapu. Its top sits at 9,230 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 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.