Blue Red Lodge, MT
Barriers drops 1,133 vertical feet over 4,204 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 29° about 3,440 feet below the top. That's steeper than 94% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 29th steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, Barriers gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's sunnier than 69% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 9,370 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 USGS lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.