Double black Whitefish, MT
Don's Descent drops 247 vertical feet over 789 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 530 feet below the top. That's steeper than 16% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 52nd steepest of 107 named runs at Whitefish. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 19°, Don's Descent gets about 107% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whitefish does, December through March. That's sunnier than 78% of the runs we've measured, and the 72nd sunniest named run at Whitefish. Its top sits at 6,480 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.