Black diamond Whitefish, MT
Fault 2 drops 714 vertical feet over 2,039 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 39° about 1,270 feet below the top. That's steeper than 94% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 10th steepest of 107 named runs at Whitefish. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 22°, Fault 2 gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whitefish does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 75th sunniest named run at Whitefish. Its top sits at 6,130 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.