Black diamond Stevens Pass, WA
Gun Tower drops 490 vertical feet over 1,478 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 1,060 feet below the top. That's steeper than 87% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 27th steepest of 70 named runs at Stevens Pass. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 20°, Gun Tower gets about 79% of the winter sun that flat ground at Stevens Pass does, December through March. That's shadier than 56% of the runs we've measured, and the 28th shadiest named run at Stevens Pass. Its top sits at 5,050 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.