Black diamond Turner Mountain, MT
Big Red drops 1,011 vertical feet over 2,540 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 620 feet below the top. That's steeper than 65% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 7th steepest of 23 named runs at Turner Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 24°, Big Red gets about 127% of the winter sun that flat ground at Turner Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 91% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Turner Mountain. Its top sits at 5,520 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.