Black diamond Snowbasin, UT
John Paul Face drops 882 vertical feet over 2,075 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 91% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 24th steepest of 127 named runs at Snowbasin. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 26°, John Paul Face gets about 108% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbasin does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th sunniest named run at Snowbasin. Its top sits at 8,540 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.