Black diamond Telluride, CO
Pandora drops 543 vertical feet over 1,220 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 90 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 37th steepest of 137 named runs at Telluride. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 27°, Pandora gets about 101% of the winter sun that flat ground at Telluride does, December through March. That's sunnier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Telluride. Its top sits at 10,510 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.