Blue Castle Mountain, BC
2nd Cutoff drops 167 vertical feet over 441 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 81% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 115th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 22°, 2nd Cutoff gets about 98% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 69% of the runs we've measured, and the 62nd sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,560 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 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.