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Howe Sound Crest Trail

Green Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch5°
Vertical18 ft
Length526 ft
Average pitch2°
FacesSW
Top3,020 ft

Howe Sound Crest Trail drops 18 vertical feet over 526 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 5° about 480 feet below the top. That's steeper than 4% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 37th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces southwest.

How well Howe Sound Crest Trail holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing southwest at an average 2°, Howe Sound Crest Trail gets about 109% 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 38th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 3,020 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.

Howe Sound Crest Trail profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Howe Sound Crest Trail 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.