Black diamond Fernie, BC
Sun Up drops 702 vertical feet over 1,737 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 39° about 1,040 feet below the top. That's steeper than 95% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 36th steepest of 119 named runs at Fernie. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 24°, Sun Up gets about 93% of the winter sun that flat ground at Fernie does, December through March. That's sunnier than 64% of the runs we've measured, and the 47th sunniest named run at Fernie. Its top sits at 5,270 feet.
With little slope to hide behind, it takes nearly the full winter sun of open ground: powder settles and turns heavy sooner after a storm, and spring snow softens early. 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.