Black diamond Steamboat, CO
First Chance drops 320 vertical feet over 3,223 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 15° about 2,320 feet below the top. That's steeper than 2% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 172nd steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 6°, First Chance gets about 84% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 51% of the runs we've measured, and the 121st sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 10,110 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.