Blue Turner Mountain, MT
Elk Basin drops 907 vertical feet over 2,559 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 2,220 feet below the top. That's steeper than 91% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 14th steepest of 23 named runs at Turner Mountain. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 21°, Elk Basin gets about 150% of the winter sun that flat ground at Turner Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Turner Mountain. Its top sits at 5,940 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.