Black diamond Wolf Creek, CO
Prospector drops 272 vertical feet over 794 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 40 feet below the top. That's steeper than 54% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 65th steepest of 131 named runs at Wolf Creek. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 20°, Prospector gets about 84% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wolf Creek does, December through March. That's sunnier than 52% of the runs we've measured, and the 59th sunniest named run at Wolf Creek. Its top sits at 11,700 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.