Black diamond Whitefish, MT
Elephant's Graveyard drops 425 vertical feet over 1,541 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 90 feet below the top. That's steeper than 62% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 39th steepest of 107 named runs at Whitefish. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 17°, Elephant's Graveyard gets about 80% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whitefish does, December through March. That's shadier than 54% of the runs we've measured, and the 21st shadiest named run at Whitefish. Its top sits at 6,540 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.