Black diamond Cypress Mountain, BC
Glades drops 348 vertical feet over 1,251 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 34° about 490 feet below the top. That's steeper than 80% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 8th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 17°, Glades gets about 135% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 94% of the runs we've measured, and the 24th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 4,660 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.