Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC
Tamarack drops 978 vertical feet over 2,237 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 30 feet below the top. That's steeper than 87% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 49th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces northeast.
Facing northeast at an average 26°, Tamarack gets about 51% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's shadier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the 8th shadiest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 7,340 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.