Blue Discovery, MT
Southern Cross drops 875 vertical feet over 4,267 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 3,090 feet below the top. That's steeper than 34% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 50th steepest of 62 named runs at Discovery. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 12°, Southern Cross gets about 135% of the winter sun that flat ground at Discovery does, December through March. That's sunnier than 94% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Discovery. Its top sits at 7,760 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.