Black diamond Winter Park, CO
Sky Pilot drops 593 vertical feet over 2,488 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 1,900 feet below the top. That's steeper than 27% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 76th steepest of 164 named runs at Winter Park. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Sky Pilot gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Winter Park does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 47th sunniest named run at Winter Park. Its top sits at 11,570 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.