Black diamond Red Lodge, MT
Boomerang drops 431 vertical feet over 1,230 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 35° about 360 feet below the top. That's steeper than 82% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 7th steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 21°, Boomerang gets about 45% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's shadier than 96% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th shadiest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 8,800 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.