Black diamond Snowbasin, UT
Staircase drops 228 vertical feet over 612 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 32° about 340 feet below the top. That's steeper than 71% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 51st steepest of 127 named runs at Snowbasin. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 22°, Staircase gets about 135% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbasin does, December through March. That's sunnier than 94% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Snowbasin. Its top sits at 8,770 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.