Black diamond Big Sky, MT
Dead Top drops 470 vertical feet over 1,667 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 39° about 910 feet below the top. That's steeper than 94% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 51st steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Dead Top gets about 103% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 99th sunniest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 9,270 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.