Double black (off-piste) Telluride, CO
Hoot Brown Terrain Park drops 895 vertical feet over 3,783 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 770 feet below the top. That's steeper than 9% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 104th steepest of 137 named runs at Telluride. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 14°, Hoot Brown Terrain Park gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Telluride does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 22nd sunniest named run at Telluride. Its top sits at 10,430 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.