Black diamond Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC
La Grande Ouest drops 342 vertical feet over 1,109 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 30° about 470 feet below the top. That's steeper than 54% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 13th steepest of 74 named runs at Mont-Sainte-Anne. It faces west.
Facing west at an average 18°, La Grande Ouest gets about 91% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mont-Sainte-Anne does, December through March. That's sunnier than 62% of the runs we've measured, and the 53rd sunniest named run at Mont-Sainte-Anne. Its top sits at 2,610 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.