Black diamond Steamboat, CO
Valley View drops 902 vertical feet over 3,202 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 630 feet below the top. That's steeper than 64% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 33rd steepest of 195 named runs at Steamboat. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 17°, Valley View gets about 108% of the winter sun that flat ground at Steamboat does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 50th sunniest named run at Steamboat. Its top sits at 8,960 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.