Blue Big Sky, MT
Silver Knife drops 719 vertical feet over 2,414 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 2,110 feet below the top. That's steeper than 85% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 144th steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 17°, Silver Knife gets about 57% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's shadier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 37th shadiest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 8,310 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.