Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Shotgun Lower drops 377 vertical feet over 1,252 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 29% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 114th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 18°, Shotgun Lower gets about 127% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 91% of the runs we've measured, and the 22nd sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,150 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.