Black diamond Steamboat, CO
Hot Cakes drops 199 vertical feet over 1,223 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 70 feet below the top. That's steeper than 14% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 108th steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 10°, Hot Cakes gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 58th sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 10,200 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.