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Gibsons

Black diamond Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch—
Vertical309 ft
Length1,283 ft
Average pitch14°
FacesW
Top4,161 ft

Gibsons drops 309 vertical feet over 1,283 feet of skiing. It faces west.

How well Gibsons holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing west at an average 14°, Gibsons gets about 108% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 79% of the runs we've measured, and the 39th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 4,160 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.

Gibsons profile

under 25°25–35°35–45°45°+ Hover to follow the line on the map.

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.