Double black Snowmass, CO
Gowdy's drops 485 vertical feet over 1,809 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 46° about 830 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 126 named runs at Snowmass. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 16°, Gowdy's gets about 80% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowmass does, December through March. That's shadier than 56% of the runs we've measured, and the 102nd shadiest named run at Snowmass. Its top sits at 11,820 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.