Black diamond Big Sky, MT
Dogwood/Lost Frontier drops 253 vertical feet over 1,389 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 510 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 258th steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 11°, Dogwood/Lost Frontier gets about 100% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's sunnier than 71% of the runs we've measured, and the 109th sunniest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 8,490 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.