Blue Red Lodge, MT
Lower Barriers drops 245 vertical feet over 1,875 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 140 feet below the top. That's steeper than 74% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 8°, Lower Barriers gets about 76% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's shadier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 43rd shadiest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 8,230 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.