Double black (off-piste) Mont Sutton, QC
4 Sous-bois Startlet drops 82 vertical feet over 559 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 16° about 140 feet below the top. That's steeper than 3% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 48th steepest of 61 named runs at Mont Sutton. It faces northwest.
Facing northwest at an average 9°, 4 Sous-bois Startlet gets about 73% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mont Sutton does, December through March. That's shadier than 66% of the runs we've measured, and the 50th shadiest named run at Mont Sutton. Its top sits at 1,640 feet.
Shaded snow stays colder and drier, so it holds powder longer after a storm and is slower to crust over or turn to slush in spring. 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.