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Top Gun

Double black Cypress Mountain, BC

Steepest pitch36°
Vertical1,014 ft
Length3,477 ft
Average pitch18°
FacesSW
Top4,315 ft

Top Gun drops 1,014 vertical feet over 3,477 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 36° about 290 feet below the top. That's steeper than 49% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 4th steepest of 37 named runs at Cypress Mountain. It faces southwest.

How well Top Gun holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing southwest at an average 18°, Top Gun gets about 144% 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 17th sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 4,320 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.

Top Gun profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Top Gun 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.