Blue Castle Mountain, BC
Joe's Cafe drops 182 vertical feet over 422 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 27° about 290 feet below the top. That's steeper than 88% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 110th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 26°, Joe's Cafe gets about 73% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 67% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th shadiest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,890 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.