Black diamond Steamboat, CO
Fools Gold drops 230 vertical feet over 800 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 580 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 86th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 17°, Fools Gold gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 91st sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 9,730 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.