Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Bears Paw drops 714 vertical feet over 1,756 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 34° about 500 feet below the top. That's steeper than 81% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 60th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 24°, Bears Paw gets about 97% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 68% of the runs we've measured, and the 67th sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,990 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.