Double black Whitecap Mountains, WI
Southern Cross drops 264 vertical feet over 908 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 32° about 250 feet below the top. That's steeper than 31% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 48 named runs at Whitecap Mountains. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 17°, Southern Cross gets about 124% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whitecap Mountains does, December through March. That's sunnier than 89% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Whitecap Mountains. Its top sits at 1,740 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.