Blue Whitefish, MT
Hogan's East drops 518 vertical feet over 1,741 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 690 feet below the top. That's steeper than 88% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 53rd steepest of 107 named runs at Whitefish. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 18°, Hogan's East gets about 147% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whitefish does, December through March. That's sunnier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the 20th sunniest named run at Whitefish. Its top sits at 5,790 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.