Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Deputy drops 558 vertical feet over 1,052 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 40° about 570 feet below the top. That's steeper than 95% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 18th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 32°, Deputy gets about 47% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 95% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th shadiest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 7,100 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.