Black diamond Telluride, CO
Apex drops 920 vertical feet over 2,311 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 400 feet below the top. That's steeper than 77% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 64th steepest of 137 named runs at Telluride. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 24°, Apex gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Telluride does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Telluride. Its top sits at 11,740 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.