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Silver Dipper

Black diamond Snowbird, UT

Steepest pitch38°
Vertical495 ft
Length1,250 ft
Average pitch24°
FacesE
Top10,717 ft

Silver Dipper drops 495 vertical feet over 1,250 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 50 feet below the top. That's steeper than 92% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 53rd steepest of 151 named runs at Snowbird. It faces east.

How well Silver Dipper holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 24°, Silver Dipper gets about 108% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowbird does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Snowbird. Its top sits at 10,720 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.

Silver Dipper profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Silver Dipper elsewhere

Nearby at Snowbird

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.