Blue Cypress Mountain, BC
3 Bears drops 570 vertical feet over 3,769 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 1,150 feet below the top. That's steeper than 80% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 20th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 9°, 3 Bears gets about 100% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 72% of the runs we've measured, and the 44th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 3,270 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.