Blue Showdown, MT
King's Ridge drops 1,168 vertical feet over 6,112 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 3,870 feet below the top. That's steeper than 85% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 34 named runs at Showdown. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 11°, King's Ridge gets about 116% of the winter sun that flat ground at Showdown does, December through March. That's sunnier than 84% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Showdown. Its top sits at 8,190 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 1-meter USGS lidar. 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.