Blue Big Sky, MT
Hook 'em Home drops 291 vertical feet over 1,090 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 410 feet below the top. That's steeper than 76% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 171st steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Hook 'em Home gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 133rd sunniest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 8,010 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.