Double black Snowbird, UT
Lower Cirque drops 375 vertical feet over 1,036 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 290 feet below the top. That's steeper than 34% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 78th steepest of 151 named runs at Snowbird. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 22°, Lower Cirque gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbird does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 30th sunniest named run at Snowbird. Its top sits at 9,950 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.