Double black Blue Mountain, ON
The Pen drops 218 vertical feet over 499 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 120 feet below the top. That's steeper than 37% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 3rd steepest of 55 named runs at Blue Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 26°, The Pen gets about 43% of the winter sun that flat ground at Blue Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 96% of the runs we've measured, and the shadiest named run at Blue Mountain. Its top sits at 1,300 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.
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Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter lidar from Natural Resources Canada. 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.