Black diamond Winter Park, CO
Gandy Dancer drops 738 vertical feet over 2,339 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 720 feet below the top. That's steeper than 33% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 71st steepest of 164 named runs at Winter Park. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 19°, Gandy Dancer gets about 69% of the winter sun that flat ground at Winter Park does, December through March. That's shadier than 74% of the runs we've measured, and the 35th shadiest named run at Winter Park. Its top sits at 10,650 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.