Double black Fernie, BC
Shale Slope drops 768 vertical feet over 2,037 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 330 feet below the top. That's steeper than 61% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 119 named runs at Fernie. It faces south.
Facing south at an average 24°, Shale Slope gets about 153% of the winter sun that flat ground at Fernie does, December through March. That's sunnier than 99% of the runs we've measured, and the sunniest named run at Fernie. Its top sits at 6,880 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.