Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Blazing Saddle drops 1,607 vertical feet over 3,256 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 930 feet below the top. That's steeper than 93% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 31st steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 30°, Blazing Saddle gets about 146% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 97% of the runs we've measured, and the 14th sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 7,260 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.
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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.