Blue Castle Mountain, BC
Pony Express drops 563 vertical feet over 1,724 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 560 feet below the top. That's steeper than 91% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 98th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 19°, Pony Express gets about 69% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 73% of the runs we've measured, and the 21st shadiest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,540 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.