Double black Cypress Mountain, BC
Area 51 Glades drops 216 vertical feet over 746 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 26° about 430 feet below the top. That's steeper than 14% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 19th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 19°, Area 51 Glades gets about 153% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 99% of the runs we've measured, and the 6th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 3,720 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.
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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.