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Sunshine Face Glades

Double black Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch30°
Vertical103 ft
Length219 ft
Average pitch28°
FacesSW
Top3,523 ft

Sunshine Face Glades drops 103 vertical feet over 219 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 140 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 12th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces southwest.

How well Sunshine Face Glades holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southwest at an average 28°, Sunshine Face Glades gets about 160% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 99% of the runs we've measured, and the 5th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 3,520 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.

Sunshine Face Glades profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Sunshine Face 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.