Double black (off-piste) Tamarack, ID
Big Tree drops 1,527 vertical feet over 4,865 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 34° about 1,230 feet below the top. That's steeper than 39% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 7th steepest of 70 named runs at Tamarack. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, Big Tree gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Tamarack does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 57th sunniest named run at Tamarack. Its top sits at 7,210 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.