Black diamond Snowbasin, UT
Grizzly Start drops 484 vertical feet over 1,151 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 35° about 100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 85% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 36th steepest of 127 named runs at Snowbasin. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 25°, Grizzly Start gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbasin does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 41st sunniest named run at Snowbasin. Its top sits at 9,310 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.