Black diamond Taos, NM
Ponsse Scheme drops 365 vertical feet over 905 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 74% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 64th steepest of 115 named runs at Taos. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 24°, Ponsse Scheme gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Taos does, December through March. That's sunnier than 61% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Taos. Its top sits at 10,550 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.