Green Castle Mountain, BC
High North Traverse drops 637 vertical feet over 2,499 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 2,050 feet below the top. That's steeper than 99% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 113th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 15°, High North Traverse gets about 83% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 51% of the runs we've measured, and the 102nd sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 6,830 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.