Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Duke drops 680 vertical feet over 1,472 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 37° about 440 feet below the top. That's steeper than 91% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 36th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 28°, Duke gets about 98% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 69% of the runs we've measured, and the 62nd sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,610 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.