Green Maverick Mountain, MT
Discovery Area drops 107 vertical feet over 743 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 9° about 450 feet below the top. That's steeper than 17% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 18th steepest of 18 named runs at Maverick Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 8°, Discovery Area gets about 113% of the winter sun that flat ground at Maverick Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Maverick Mountain. Its top sits at 6,960 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.