Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
9-5 drops 552 vertical feet over 1,474 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 31° about 890 feet below the top. That's steeper than 63% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 86th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 22°, 9-5 gets about 74% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 36th shadiest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,600 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.