Double black Red Lodge, MT
Coal Chute drops 921 vertical feet over 2,189 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 930 feet below the top. That's steeper than 60% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 3rd steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 25°, Coal Chute gets about 35% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's shadier than 99% of the runs we've measured, and the 2nd shadiest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 9,080 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.