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Tomcat

Black diamond Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch25°
Vertical308 ft
Length1,047 ft
Average pitch17°
FacesS
Top4,633 ft

Tomcat drops 308 vertical feet over 1,047 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 960 feet below the top. That's steeper than 25% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 22nd steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces south.

How well Tomcat holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 17°, Tomcat gets about 149% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 98% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 4,630 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.

Tomcat profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Tomcat 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.