Unrated Castle Mountain, BC
Chinook Upper drops 442 vertical feet over 1,146 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 840 feet below the top. That's steeper than 97% of the 511 unrated runs we've measured in North America, and the 42nd steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 23°, Chinook Upper gets about 89% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 59% of the runs we've measured, and the 91st sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 6,860 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.