Black diamond Sunlight Mountain, CO
Frying Pan Alley drops 421 vertical feet over 1,118 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 32° about 470 feet below the top. That's steeper than 68% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 20th steepest of 69 named runs at Sunlight Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 22°, Frying Pan Alley gets about 63% of the winter sun that flat ground at Sunlight Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 33rd shadiest named run at Sunlight Mountain. Its top sits at 8,650 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.