Black diamond Winter Park, CO
Needles Eye drops 625 vertical feet over 1,660 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 890 feet below the top. That's steeper than 49% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 59th steepest of 164 named runs at Winter Park. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 22°, Needles Eye gets about 49% of the winter sun that flat ground at Winter Park does, December through March. That's shadier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd shadiest named run at Winter Park. Its top sits at 10,390 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.