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Joe's Folly

Blue Teton Pass, MT

Steepest pitch28°
Vertical172 ft
Length495 ft
Average pitch21°
FacesE
Top6,964 ft

Joe's Folly drops 172 vertical feet over 495 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 350 feet below the top. That's steeper than 92% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 38 named runs at Teton Pass. It faces east.

How well Joe's Folly holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing east at an average 21°, Joe's Folly gets about 120% of the winter sun that flat ground at Teton Pass does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Teton Pass. Its top sits at 6,960 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.

Joe's Folly profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Joe's Folly elsewhere

Nearby at Teton Pass

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.