Black diamond Wolf Creek, CO
Solar Slide drops 135 vertical feet over 357 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 240 feet below the top. That's steeper than 92% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 36th steepest of 131 named runs at Wolf Creek. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 23°, Solar Slide gets about 110% of the winter sun that flat ground at Wolf Creek does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Wolf Creek. Its top sits at 11,440 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.