Blue Mont Orford, QC
Balade drops 265 vertical feet over 1,279 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 19° about 380 feet below the top. That's steeper than 35% of the 5,615 blue runs we've measured in North America, and the 40th steepest of 62 named runs at Mont Orford. It faces east.
Facing east at an average 12°, Balade gets about 86% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mont Orford does, December through March. That's sunnier than 55% of the runs we've measured, and the 27th sunniest named run at Mont Orford. Its top sits at 1,730 feet.
It gets an ordinary dose of sun: powder lasts a typical amount of time, and spring snow softens on a normal schedule. 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.