Green Big Sky, MT
Pony Express drops 133 vertical feet over 1,436 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 11° about 1,070 feet below the top. That's steeper than 24% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 284th steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 5°, Pony Express gets about 112% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's sunnier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 87th sunniest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 7,940 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.
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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.