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Pit Parks

Blue Great Divide, MT

Steepest pitch27°
Vertical255 ft
Length682 ft
Average pitch22°
FacesE
Top6,767 ft

Pit Parks drops 255 vertical feet over 682 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 180 feet below the top. That's steeper than 88% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 30th steepest of 123 named runs at Great Divide. It faces east.

How well Pit Parks holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing east at an average 22°, Pit Parks gets about 120% of the winter sun that flat ground at Great Divide does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Great Divide. Its top sits at 6,770 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.

Pit Parks profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Pit Parks elsewhere

Nearby at Great Divide

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.