Black diamond Discovery, MT
Northern Lights drops 269 vertical feet over 1,512 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 1,170 feet below the top. That's steeper than 18% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 62 named runs at Discovery. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 10°, Northern Lights gets about 78% of the winter sun that flat ground at Discovery does, December through March. That's shadier than 58% of the runs we've measured, and the 34th shadiest named run at Discovery. Its top sits at 7,140 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.