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Bowen West Glades

Double black Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch—
Vertical531 ft
Length1,319 ft
Average pitch24°
FacesSW
Top3,903 ft

Bowen West Glades drops 531 vertical feet over 1,319 feet of skiing. It faces southwest.

How well Bowen West Glades holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southwest at an average 24°, Bowen West Glades gets about 147% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the 12th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 3,900 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.

Bowen West Glades profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Nearby at Cypress Mountain

Measured by ZRankings from Natural Resources Canada lidar (1-meter where it exists, coarser elsewhere). 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.