Blue Red Lodge, MT
Lower Royal's drops 304 vertical feet over 1,405 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 23° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 66% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 41st steepest of 54 named runs at Red Lodge. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 13°, Lower Royal's gets about 126% of the winter sun that flat ground at Red Lodge does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 3rd sunniest named run at Red Lodge. Its top sits at 8,110 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.