Black diamond Great Divide, MT
Puma drops 219 vertical feet over 843 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 27% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 45th steepest of 123 named runs at Great Divide. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 15°, Puma gets about 94% of the winter sun that flat ground at Great Divide does, December through March. That's sunnier than 66% of the runs we've measured, and the 34th sunniest named run at Great Divide. Its top sits at 7,040 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.