Black diamond Snowbasin, UT
Wildflower Start drops 179 vertical feet over 858 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 40 feet below the top. That's steeper than 6% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 116th steepest of 127 named runs at Snowbasin. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Wildflower Start gets about 109% 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 13th sunniest named run at Snowbasin. Its top sits at 9,000 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.