Black diamond Discovery, MT
Gold Rush drops 325 vertical feet over 1,525 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 920 feet below the top. That's steeper than 14% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 62 named runs at Discovery. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 12°, Gold Rush gets about 109% of the winter sun that flat ground at Discovery does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 19th sunniest named run at Discovery. Its top sits at 7,360 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.