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Cut Off

Blue Turner Mountain, MT

Steepest pitch25°
Vertical129 ft
Length833 ft
Average pitch9°
FacesE
Top4,510 ft

Cut Off drops 129 vertical feet over 833 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 79% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 17th steepest of 23 named runs at Turner Mountain. It faces east.

How well Cut Off holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing east at an average 9°, Cut Off gets about 114% of the winter sun that flat ground at Turner Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 13th sunniest named run at Turner Mountain. Its top sits at 4,510 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.

Cut Off profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Cut Off elsewhere

Nearby at Turner Mountain

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.