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Wammy

Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch40°
Vertical749 ft
Length1,522 ft
Average pitch30°
FacesE
Top6,246 ft

Wammy drops 749 vertical feet over 1,522 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 40° about 30 feet below the top. That's steeper than 95% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 20th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.

How well Wammy holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing east at an average 30°, Wammy gets about 115% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 83% of the runs we've measured, and the 36th sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 6,250 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.

Wammy profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Wammy 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.