Double black Fernie, BC
Big Dipper Upper drops 302 vertical feet over 774 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 48° about 10 feet below the top. That's steeper than 95% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 3rd steepest of 119 named runs at Fernie. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 24°, Big Dipper Upper gets about 130% of the winter sun that flat ground at Fernie does, December through March. That's sunnier than 92% of the runs we've measured, and the 9th sunniest named run at Fernie. Its top sits at 6,150 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 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.