Black diamond Grand Targhee, WY
Lightning Trees drops 755 vertical feet over 1,965 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 1,020 feet below the top. That's steeper than 90% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 9th steepest of 83 named runs at Grand Targhee. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 23°, Lightning Trees gets about 151% of the winter sun that flat ground at Grand Targhee does, December through March. That's sunnier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd sunniest named run at Grand Targhee. Its top sits at 9,560 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.