Black diamond Big Sky, MT
Shady Chute drops 320 vertical feet over 1,185 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 770 feet below the top. That's steeper than 9% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 223rd steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 16°, Shady Chute gets about 78% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's shadier than 58% of the runs we've measured, and the 123rd shadiest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 8,280 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.