Double black Taos, NM
Highline Ridge drops 646 vertical feet over 7,212 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 840 feet below the top. That's steeper than 37% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 63rd steepest of 115 named runs at Taos. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 8°, Highline Ridge gets about 85% of the winter sun that flat ground at Taos does, December through March. That's sunnier than 53% of the runs we've measured, and the 22nd sunniest named run at Taos. Its top sits at 12,450 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.