Black diamond Big Sky, MT
Upper Bearcat Gully drops 238 vertical feet over 723 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 80 feet below the top. That's steeper than 57% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 110th steepest of 290 named runs at Big Sky. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, Upper Bearcat Gully gets about 104% of the winter sun that flat ground at Big Sky does, December through March. That's sunnier than 75% of the runs we've measured, and the 96th sunniest named run at Big Sky. Its top sits at 8,780 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.