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Horizon Bypass

Blue Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch21°
Vertical264 ft
Length997 ft
Average pitch15°
FacesSW
Top3,383 ft

Horizon Bypass drops 264 vertical feet over 997 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 21° about 310 feet below the top. That's steeper than 46% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 29th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces southwest.

How well Horizon Bypass holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southwest at an average 15°, Horizon Bypass gets about 143% 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 19th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 3,380 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.

Horizon Bypass profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Horizon Bypass 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.