Double black Telluride, CO
Gold Hill 8 drops 446 vertical feet over 1,105 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 44° about 210 feet below the top. That's steeper than 88% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 8th steepest of 137 named runs at Telluride. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 26°, Gold Hill 8 gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Telluride does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 25th sunniest named run at Telluride. Its top sits at 12,750 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.