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Dirty Dozen

Blue Castle Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch19°
Vertical145 ft
Length539 ft
Average pitch16°
FacesSE
Top6,074 ft

Dirty Dozen drops 145 vertical feet over 539 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 490 feet below the top. That's steeper than 35% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 136th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Dirty Dozen holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 16°, Dirty Dozen gets about 122% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 88% of the runs we've measured, and the 29th sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 6,070 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.

Dirty Dozen profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Dirty Dozen elsewhere

Nearby at Castle Mountain

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.