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Shore Glades

Black diamond Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch28°
Vertical276 ft
Length1,001 ft
Average pitch16°
FacesSE
Top3,839 ft

Shore Glades drops 276 vertical feet over 1,001 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 28° about 340 feet below the top. That's steeper than 42% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 16th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces southeast.

How well Shore Glades holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southeast at an average 16°, Shore Glades gets about 132% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 3,840 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.

Shore Glades profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Shore Glades 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.