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Blaster

Blue Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch22°
Vertical197 ft
Length751 ft
Average pitch15°
FacesS
Top3,396 ft

Blaster drops 197 vertical feet over 751 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 22° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 58% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 25th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces south.

How well Blaster holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 15°, Blaster gets about 144% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 97% of the runs we've measured, and the 17th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 3,400 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.

Blaster profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Blaster elsewhere

Nearby at Cypress 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.