Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Stagecoach Lower drops 243 vertical feet over 937 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 540 feet below the top. That's steeper than 24% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 120th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 16°, Stagecoach Lower gets about 62% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 82% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th shadiest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,240 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.