Black diamond Sundance, UT
Pipeline drops 1,149 vertical feet over 3,403 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 1,420 feet below the top. That's steeper than 41% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 35th steepest of 66 named runs at Sundance. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 20°, Pipeline gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sundance does, December through March. That's sunnier than 70% of the runs we've measured, and the 18th sunniest named run at Sundance. Its top sits at 7,580 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.