Black diamond Steamboat, CO
Biscuits drops 204 vertical feet over 1,005 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 470 feet below the top. That's steeper than 9% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 122nd steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 12°, Biscuits gets about 85% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 52% of the runs we've measured, and the 114th sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 10,380 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 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.