Blue Le Massif, QC
La Richard drops 872 vertical feet over 3,505 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 24° about 720 feet below the top. That's steeper than 70% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 30th steepest of 67 named runs at Le Massif. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 15°, La Richard gets about 122% of the winter sun that flat ground at Le Massif does, December through March. That's sunnier than 88% of the runs we've measured, and the 7th sunniest named run at Le Massif. Its top sits at 2,170 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.