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Wolverine

Black diamond Castle Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch40°
Vertical518 ft
Length1,177 ft
Average pitch26°
FacesE
Top5,343 ft

Wolverine drops 518 vertical feet over 1,177 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 40° about 50 feet below the top. That's steeper than 95% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 16th steepest of 140 named runs at Castle Mountain. It faces east.

How well Wolverine holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 26°, Wolverine gets about 105% of the winter sun that flat ground at Castle Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 76% of the runs we've measured, and the 48th sunniest named run at Castle Mountain. Its top sits at 5,340 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.

Wolverine profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Wolverine 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.