Black diamond Le Massif, QC
La Dérive drops 204 vertical feet over 737 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 410 feet below the top. That's steeper than 22% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 25th steepest of 67 named runs at Le Massif. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 16°, La Dérive gets about 118% of the winter sun that flat ground at Le Massif does, December through March. That's sunnier than 86% of the runs we've measured, and the 11th sunniest named run at Le Massif. Its top sits at 2,040 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.