Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Goat Run drops 621 vertical feet over 1,446 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 35° about 1,080 feet below the top. That's steeper than 84% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 53rd steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 26°, Goat Run gets about 92% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 63% of the runs we've measured, and the 82nd sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 6,490 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.