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Ranger Trail

Blue Whitefish, MT

Steepest pitch22°
Vertical424 ft
Length1,700 ft
Average pitch15°
FacesS
Top5,290 ft

Ranger Trail drops 424 vertical feet over 1,700 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 690 feet below the top. That's steeper than 52% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 80th steepest of 107 named runs at Whitefish. It faces south.

How well Ranger Trail holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 15°, Ranger Trail gets about 134% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whitefish does, December through March. That's sunnier than 94% of the runs we've measured, and the 38th sunniest named run at Whitefish. Its top sits at 5,290 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.

Ranger Trail profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Ranger Trail elsewhere

Nearby at Whitefish

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.