Black diamond Big Sky, MT
Sticks & Stones drops 174 vertical feet over 711 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 20 feet below the top. That's steeper than 13% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 211th steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 14°, Sticks & Stones gets about 86% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's sunnier than 54% of the runs we've measured, and the 153rd sunniest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 8,800 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.