Black diamond Taos, NM
Bob's drops 369 vertical feet over 1,387 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 70 feet below the top. That's steeper than 78% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 62nd steepest of 115 named runs at Taos. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Bob's gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Taos does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Taos. Its top sits at 11,660 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.