Blue Showdown, MT
Mizpah drops 422 vertical feet over 2,400 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 50% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 19th steepest of 34 named runs at Showdown. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 10°, Mizpah gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Showdown does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 30th sunniest named run at Showdown. Its top sits at 7,600 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 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.