Double black Wolf Creek, CO
Birdy Bird drops 204 vertical feet over 702 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 350 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 90th steepest of 131 named runs at Wolf Creek. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 17°, Birdy Bird gets about 131% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wolf Creek does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Wolf Creek. Its top sits at 10,740 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.