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Plenty Coup

Blue Big Sky, MT

Steepest pitch22°
Vertical488 ft
Length3,763 ft
Average pitch8°
FacesS
Top8,110 ft

Plenty Coup drops 488 vertical feet over 3,763 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 820 feet below the top. That's steeper than 54% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 216th steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces south.

How well Plenty Coup holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 8°, Plenty Coup gets about 131% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 44th sunniest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 8,110 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.

Plenty Coup profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Plenty Coup elsewhere

Nearby at Big Sky

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.