Black diamond Snowbasin, UT
Sowback drops 588 vertical feet over 1,841 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 32° about 960 feet below the top. That's steeper than 70% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 127 named runs at Snowbasin. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, Sowback gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbasin does, December through March. That's sunnier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the 24th sunniest named run at Snowbasin. Its top sits at 9,230 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.