Black diamond Big Sky, MT
Legend drops 115 vertical feet over 428 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 100 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 177th steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Legend gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 95th sunniest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 8,660 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.