Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Outrigger drops 501 vertical feet over 1,243 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 120 feet below the top. That's steeper than 75% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 74th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 24°, Outrigger 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 80th sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,460 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.