Black diamond Snowmass, CO
West Face drops 289 vertical feet over 964 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 720 feet below the top. That's steeper than 77% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 126 named runs at Snowmass. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 18°, West Face gets about 58% of the winter sun that flat ground at Snowmass does, December through March. That's shadier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th shadiest named run at Snowmass. Its top sits at 11,020 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.