Black diamond Steamboat, CO
Fool's Gold drops 266 vertical feet over 959 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 380 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 93rd steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 16°, Fool's Gold gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 87th sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 9,720 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.