Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Saddle Up drops 592 vertical feet over 1,490 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 33° about 440 feet below the top. That's steeper than 77% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 69th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 24°, Saddle Up gets about 148% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 6,220 feet.
Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. 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.