Blue Red Lodge, MT
Drifter drops 804 vertical feet over 4,424 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 3,150 feet below the top. That's steeper than 96% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 21st steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 11°, Drifter gets about 63% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's shadier than 81% of the runs we've measured, and the 26th shadiest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 9,380 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.