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Main

Blue Turner Mountain, MT

Steepest pitch28°
Vertical1,244 ft
Length3,423 ft
Average pitch21°
FacesSE
Top5,091 ft

Main drops 1,244 vertical feet over 3,423 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 2,150 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 11th steepest of 23 named runs at Turner Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Main holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 21°, Main gets about 125% of the winter sun that flat ground at Turner Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 90% of the runs we've measured, and the 8th sunniest named run at Turner Mountain. Its top sits at 5,090 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.

Main profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Main 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.