Double black Red Lodge, MT
Headwaters drops 1,160 vertical feet over 5,538 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 2,900 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 23rd steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 13°, Headwaters gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 9,380 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.