Black diamond Red Lodge, MT
Face of M drops 224 vertical feet over 569 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 32° about 260 feet below the top. That's steeper than 69% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces north.
Facing north at an average 23°, Face of M gets about 37% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's shadier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th shadiest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 7,990 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.