Blue Discovery, MT
Sapphire drops 718 vertical feet over 4,596 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 1,550 feet below the top. That's steeper than 20% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 54th steepest of 62 named runs at Discovery. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 9°, Sapphire gets about 99% of the winter sun that flat ground at Discovery does, December through March. That's sunnier than 71% of the runs we've measured, and the 21st sunniest named run at Discovery. Its top sits at 7,650 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.