Black diamond Snowmass, CO
High Pass drops 689 vertical feet over 6,312 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 6,120 feet below the top. That's steeper than 8% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 101st steepest of 126 named runs at Snowmass. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 6°, High Pass gets about 83% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowmass does, December through March. That's shadier than 50% of the runs we've measured, and the 107th shadiest named run at Snowmass. Its top sits at 12,520 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.