Black diamond Sipapu, NM
TS drops 257 vertical feet over 782 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 480 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 44 named runs at Sipapu. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, TS gets about 102% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sipapu does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Sipapu. Its top sits at 9,260 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.