Black diamond Great Divide, MT
Fountain Head drops 279 vertical feet over 690 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 350 feet below the top. That's steeper than 32% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 123 named runs at Great Divide. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 24°, Fountain Head gets about 167% of the winter sun that flat ground at Great Divide does, December through March. That's sunnier than 100% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Great Divide. Its top sits at 6,630 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.