Double black Solitude, UT
Cathedral Cirque drops 765 vertical feet over 3,307 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 49° about 2,390 feet below the top. That's steeper than 96% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 5th steepest of 75 named runs at Solitude. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 16°, Cathedral Cirque gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Solitude does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Solitude. Its top sits at 10,040 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.