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The Meadows (Noth Run)

Green Castle Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch17°
Vertical173 ft
Length794 ft
Average pitch13°
FacesE
Top5,146 ft

The Meadows (Noth Run) drops 173 vertical feet over 794 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 17° about 120 feet below the top. That's steeper than 71% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 137th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.

How well The Meadows (Noth Run) holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 13°, The Meadows (Noth Run) gets about 110% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 41st 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.

The Meadows (Noth Run) profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like The Meadows (Noth Run) elsewhere

Nearby at Castle Mountain

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.