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Wally's Follies

Black diamond Fernie, BC

Steepest pitch38°
Vertical744 ft
Length1,812 ft
Average pitch25°
FacesE
Top4,793 ft

Wally's Follies drops 744 vertical feet over 1,812 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 38° about 370 feet below the top. That's steeper than 92% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 41st steepest of 119 named runs at Fernie. It faces east.

How well Wally's Follies holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing east at an average 25°, Wally's Follies gets about 122% of the winter sun that flat ground at Fernie does, December through March. That's sunnier than 88% of the runs we've measured, and the 16th sunniest named run at Fernie. Its top sits at 4,790 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.

Wally's Follies profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Wally's Follies elsewhere

Nearby at Fernie

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.