Black diamond Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC
La Pionnière drops 954 vertical feet over 3,373 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 25° about 800 feet below the top. That's steeper than 23% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 31st steepest of 74 named runs at Mont-Sainte-Anne. It faces southeast.
Facing southeast at an average 17°, La Pionnière gets about 131% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mont-Sainte-Anne does, December through March. That's sunnier than 93% of the runs we've measured, and the 10th sunniest named run at Mont-Sainte-Anne. Its top sits at 2,560 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.