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Three Stooges

Black diamond Whitefish, MT

Steepest pitch30°
Vertical243 ft
Length552 ft
Average pitch26°
FacesS
Top5,211 ft

Three Stooges drops 243 vertical feet over 552 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 460 feet below the top. That's steeper than 60% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 43rd steepest of 107 named runs at Whitefish. It faces south.

How well Three Stooges holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 26°, Three Stooges gets about 163% of the winter sun that flat ground at Whitefish does, December through March. That's sunnier than 99% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Whitefish. Its top sits at 5,210 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.

Three Stooges profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Three Stooges 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.