Black diamond Steamboat, CO
Lower Valley View drops 813 vertical feet over 3,648 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 1,730 feet below the top. That's steeper than 34% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 72nd steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 13°, Lower Valley View gets about 101% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 64th sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 7,960 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.