Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Drifter drops 1,951 vertical feet over 4,006 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 40° about 3,430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 95% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 16th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 29°, Drifter gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 77th sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 7,200 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.