Blue Red Lodge, MT
Lower Continental drops 404 vertical feet over 1,641 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 35° about 1,090 feet below the top. That's steeper than 99% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 14°, Lower Continental gets about 67% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's shadier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 33rd shadiest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 8,300 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.