Black diamond Tamarack, ID
Hot Sauce drops 362 vertical feet over 1,700 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 1,320 feet below the top. That's steeper than 56% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 20th steepest of 70 named runs at Tamarack. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 13°, Hot Sauce gets about 114% of the winter sun that flat ground at Tamarack does, December through March. That's sunnier than 83% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Tamarack. Its top sits at 6,000 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.