Black diamond Cypress Mountain, BC
Upper Bowen drops 338 vertical feet over 1,341 feet of skiing. It faces southwest.
Facing southwest at an average 15°, Upper Bowen gets about 130% of the winter sun that flat ground at Cypress Mountain does, December through March. That's sunnier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the 31st sunniest named run at Cypress Mountain. Its top sits at 4,170 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.
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Measured by ZRankings from 30-meter elevation data from Natural Resources Canada, too coarse to measure steepness. 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.